{"id":175781,"date":"2025-08-26T01:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:41:11","slug":"fat-bao-puts-a-modern-spin-on-a-traditional-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175781\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Bao puts a modern spin on a traditional dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Localish logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-localish.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 25, 2025 9:12PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fat Bao puts a modern spin on a traditional dish\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Steamed, stuffed, and supersized: The Texas-size fillings truly reflect the name &#8220;Fat Bao.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas &#8212; It&#8217;s called Fat Bao for a reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Most baos are traditionally smaller, and this one here is an open bao; therefore, we want to stuff it with a good amount of ingredients,&#8221; Pak Tsui said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tsui is the co-owner of Fat Bao, located at 3419 Kirby Drive in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The restaurant offers a modern twist on the traditional Chinese dish, which is typically stuffed with Peking duck. At Fat Bao, their fillings vary from bulgogi to pork katsu and curry beef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In the video above, Tsui shares his experience growing up in a Chinese restaurant his parents owned and how he wanted to open a restaurant that was unlike anything the city had seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 25, 2025 9:12PM Steamed, stuffed, and supersized: The Texas-size fillings truly reflect the name &#8220;Fat Bao.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[99887,99885,22165,99881,99884,4345,99882,99886,99883,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-175781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-beef-curry","9":"tag-bulgogi","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-fat-bao","12":"tag-fillings","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-pak-tsui","15":"tag-pork-katsu","16":"tag-steamed-bun","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092526617880175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}