"we unanimously picked the Chairman because of the luscious pork fat and there’s a good amount of pork meat"
"Pork buns, pork buns!"
"I love Baohaus and I really hope everyone tries their stuff."
"I love the gloriously sticky fatty pork, the generous amount of pickled mustard greens, the slight heat from the red Haus sauce, and the added crunch from the peanuts and Taiwanese red sugar."
"I've had many pork belly gua bao, or Taiwanese burgers, in Flushing - but The Chairman Bao ($7.95 for two) is the Platonic ideal."
"The buns are steamed in lotus leaves. The pork is flash-fried, and then simmered in rice wine, soy sauce, rock sugar, ginger and star anise — a technique called “red cooking” in Mandarin — plus cherry Coca-Cola, which adds a hint of caramel."
"But best of all is the fatty specimen dubbed the chairman bao, which harbors a tender, sticky slab of pork belly, at least a quarter-inch thick, sprinkled with coarse Taiwanese red sugar, crushed peanuts, and more of that pickled vegetable relish."
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