Shandong Bao House

10008 Aurora Ave N Ste B, Seattle - 98133
156 reviews
Szechuan Dim Sum
(818) 667-5777

Everything was delicious! The general tso chicken and the spicy oil pulled noodles were the best. The pork belly was nice as well. The staff were kind, and I liked ordering and paying online. Would certainly come back!

I love every dishes I tried there. It's authentic Szechuan (sichuan) food. I am from Sichuan province and I truly think it's authentic and am pretty sure all the dishes are prepared by people from my hometown. I saw some comment regarding the flavor of the dish been salty and just want to share my opinion. First of all, I think you could ask for less salt/spicy level. The owner is super nice and honest. I think he would love to help to make our eating experience more ideal.second, traditional Szechuan/Sichuan food is heavy in flavor, especially been 'salty', 'spicy', 'oily'. it's kind of a location reason as Sichuan is located in a basin area with mountain all around it. It's pretty humid all year around. We eat that salt/spicy and oil level to dehumidify our body in Chinese medicine term. Hope this make sense and helps.

The worse beef noodle I have never had. Only test salty water plus a few meat slides without beef flavor. Don't fool by its picture. Will not order this item again.

My visit was a bit disappointing. I do see that many others have had varying experiences. Some rated this place a 1 star but have improved to a 4 (not even sure why they'd come back at 1 star, but probably had good reason) whereas others went the other way rating a 4 star in the past and downgrading to a 1 or 2. Google reviews looked good, Yelp was questionable.We came because we saw a promotional ad to take $5 off the Pork Bao for spending over $35. We were then told that this only applied to online orders (for pickup). No where on the promotion did they mention for takeout, simply stated that "pickup is available" not that pickup is necessary for the promotion. We ordered online through a scanned QR code inside anyways and there's also a tablet you can order on inside, but nonetheless these don't qualify. That was a red flag.Items:- Egg drop soup 1/5Egg drop soup was pretty viscous, like corn syrup. Pretty interesting with that texture and it was also lukewarm, so not fresh or even reheated, simply served as is.- Pork Bao 3/5Standard dumplings, nothing wrong here.- Hot Spicy Oil Pulled Noodles 1/5Noodles were stiff and undercooked, not sure if it's intentional but definitely tasted wrong. Hard firm hand pulled noodles that were possibly cold and reheated poorly.- Chicken Pan Fried Bun 4/5The pan fried buns are definitely the better items here. The bottoms are seared nicely for an extra crisp flavor.- Barbecued Pork Bun 2/5These looked identical to the beef buns and I was expecting more of a char siu bun. Instead, I just got regular pork inside a bun. Biggest disappointment.- House Beef Bun 3/5Looked identical to the "barbecued" pork bun. No surprises but nothing stood out.- Chili Oil w/ Shepherd's Purse Ravioli 3/5Seems the shepherd items may be entirely vegetarian? Couldn't tell honestly. These were fine, chili oil was standard.

Dishes here are prepared quite nicely. We opted for takeout, but not dine-in, because there were too many flies buzzing around inside the restaurant and the market it is attached to. We are concerned about the sanitation of the location.

The flavors are pretty Decen decent but all the dishes were too salty.Also the tendon is way too chewy, I would not recommend this dish at all.

Absolutely wonderful! Our entire meal was great but I particularly enjoyed the Big Plate Chicken and the garlic broccoli. The chicken and celery dumplings were very tasty, too. I'll be coming back to try more of the menu.

Most of the dish were pretty salty. I don’t recommend the dish with tendon, it was really chewy and hard.

I enjoy the food here, but the service today was unacceptable. I placed an order that said it would be ready in 30 mins. I live about 45 mins away. When I arrived, there were a bunch of people ahead of me waiting. I waited 20 mins before someone finally came to the front. Other people butted in front of me asking where their orders were but the guy just kept saying he has no idea when orders will be ready because they are working on a large order in the back. I then checked my order page again and it was now saying it would be an additional 2 hours wait (my order was supposed to be ready by the time I arrived). No way was I going to wait 2 hours for some food while my dog was outside in the car on a cold evening. And with how far away I live there was no chance I could leave and come back. I never did get a message telling me my order was ready either.I understand you were busy, but you can't just ignore all the people waiting in the lobby. Deal with your customers and your order system if you are unable to handle the orders. The guy literally tried to come to the front just to close the register and head to the back again without acknowledging all of the new people who had shown up for their orders behind me. And when asked questions, he was very dismissive as he was just trying to hide in the back. And when asked to cancel orders and get a refund, he said he couldn't change anything in the system...

So flavorless, I thought I had covid.I'm not sure what happened to our food, but it tastes like they cook a huge batch in the morning, and dish it out all day. There was LITERALLY no flavor. And the dumplings, well you could barely taste what meat was inside. There was so little flavor, I almost went to the store and grabbed another covid test. Not a bang, just a whimper.I still have the dish. I'd be happy to bring it back and show you the quality of your restaurant myself. I'm very disappointed with the obvious ill attempt at using seasonings and not being cheap.