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Wow Bao

2.0 (121 reviews)
InexpensiveChinese
Open • 10:00 am - 9:00 pm

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Bethany G.

Great gluten free option of teriyaki chicken and jasmine rice! It's at the beginning of the international terminal at O'Hare (terminal 5).

Spicy Mongolian Beef
Melissa B.

Maybe I just got lucky, but I found this place very good. While I had to wait a little bit for my Spicy Mongolian Beef bao to be made, the wait was worth it. I found the service overall to be quick and polite, and the food delicious. The bao were large and fluffy with a wonderful sweetness. While I didn't find the beef especially spicy for me, I did enjoy it. Especially when you added some sriracha to it. My daughter ordered the Spicy Kung Pao Chicken and Potstickers, and although the Kung Pao didn't look all that appetizing, it tasted very good with a nice amount of spice. Despite the fair amount of negative reviews for this location, I found the bao good enough to seek out a location close to me and look forward to trying it again.

Kung Pao Combo
Phil P.

TLDR version: Pig slop. Avoid with extreme prejudice. Food looks *nothing* like the pictures. If you're a child of the '70s and you can remember "Chop Suey" day in the elementary school cafeteria (that gray slop with chunks of celery in it), then you'll have an excellent idea of the garbage served here. Think of what must be in the pipes on Thanksgiving after everyone has dumped their plate remains into the disposal and turned it on. Add some Chinese five spice and some red pepper flakes and, voilá! Your Wow Bow meal is ready, just as soon as you dig it out. Inedible. Disgusting. See photo for what you get for $15

Chicken Teriyaki Bao
Bailey P.

The prices are jacked up as expected for an airport, but price aside, Wow Bao is my terminal 5 go-go. It's in the food court right after you get through security so it's pretty popular and can be hard to find a place to sit but it's packaged very conveniently if you have to take it to your gate instead. The bowls looked a little sad but the baos never disappoint. The chicken teriyaki and BBQ pork are my favorite. The coconut custard dessert flavor was different but good!

Where's the meat?!?
Zrinko V.

Airport Wow Bao, just past checkpoint. Great taste, but did they maybe not add ENOUGH meat?!?! There is hardly ANY meat in the Kung Pao chicken bowl... luckily rice flavor fantastic and the pot stickers were YUM!

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Osan N.

This was maybe 11:30AM when I got here and the gal taking my order tells me that they are out of everything and only have Kung Pao or Orange Chicken and reading the reviews about orange chicken, I decided to go with the Pao. It definitely had a kick but boy oh boi- it was extremely greasy. It was so greasy that I could not even finish the small $10 bowl. I am not expecting airport food to be 5 stars and I am at peace with that but man... Come on maybe try

Whoa, this what they are calling Kung Pow Chicken.
John-Paul L.

The Kung Pow looks like pig slop. The rice was clumpy and probably a day old. I have never given a 1 star rating, but this place truly deserves it. The bao wasn't great, too. I should have checked yelp reviews. I couldn't finish it and I feel sick. Run from this place.

Ziad S.

Out of the most popular items. I ordered the cheeseburger bao, and it was good. This place lacks basics of customer service. No one there cares, I paid for my order and they were bunch of food left at the end of the table, and you have to use your creativity to figure out which one is your order!

Veggie dumplings
Laura S.

The service was okay, they were out of a few items. The veggie dumplings were subpar.

So many of those things that look like hair lol
Kim R.

Wanted to try this place and it was just ok. A combo of 1 bowl and 2 baos for $14.99. My teriyaki wasn't that good. I think Panda Express would have been better though. I noticed little things that looked like hair (not hair) all over in my bowl. These things were annoying. The coconut custard bao was good. The BBQ pork bao wasn't that good. Will I try this place again here or somewhere else? Probably not. A bottle of water is $1.78 + combo I mentioned above were $20.74. Really cheap.

Nicole E.

Ordered two bowls, one was chicken teriyaki and the other was Kung pao and both were upgraded to brown rice for an up charge. Both were small dinky bowls and there was most rice in both bowls. The chicken teriyaki was so skimped out on teriyaki chicken mix and maybe had 1/4 cup at most, the Kung pao at least had a 1/2 cup was still a rip off for what you get. As far as taste does they tasted no worse or better than the crappy fast food at a Chinese food court in some run down mall. Suffice to say the food was awful and not worthy of human consumption. What's worse is the chicken was in small pieces and as a whole looked like dog food, sickening really.

Looks good but.......
Roger M.

I agreed. Looks very tempting, but poorly managed. they only had hamburger Baozi, no dumplings, no potstickers. Steamed buns were cold, and I could not find any chicken in the orange chicken. great idea, poor delivery.

Justin C.

When in ORD Chicago airport and you're eating for your flight in terminal 5, you know your food options are limited. Perusing my options I chose Asian and made my way to Wow Bao, hot Asian buns. A nice and pleasant change to the typical fast food burger. Their menu is limited but what they offer is solid eats for a cheap price. They offer 8 different flavor bao's, 5 different bowls with white, brown or lo mein noodles and chicken or vegetable potstickers / dumplings. Any of the above can also be made a combo. A small wrap is at the bottom and the meat was fresh and tasty. Would I eat here again, Yes. Solid, quick, tasty bites. Perhaps next visit I would get 4 bao's since they are about 3 bites to finish.

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The people are super rude and so unorganized. Food ok, but would not eat here. Absolutely no professionalism.

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Sickening sweet and high content of salt. A disgrace to Chinese cooking. Horrible. Dont eat here.!

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Not worth the wait although the potstickers were good. The manapua or bao was ok. No regular char siu.

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Seriously - i never given a one star before, but the food was not good (plus they gave me the wrong order) AND the service was horrible!

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OK-ish Bao. I had a couple of traditional BBQ pork flavor ones. Fine but nothing special. A bit overpriced but that's the airport for ya.

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Horrible service and the good is horrible!!!!! If you decent food or ok service you won't get the experience here !!!!!

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Refused serving me because I had peanut allerigies. They wouldn't check the ingredients and just said not toe at their food.

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9 years ago

Really good Baozi. The flavors are a bit westernized but they still maintain their fluffy texture. Fast service.

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The food was really good but the people working there were a bunch of dips. Good Thai curry chicken though.

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