Bao Down — Restaurant in Sunderland

Visited midday on a Sunday, not too busy so very quick service and cooked to order for us. Reasonably varied menu, with Bao buns, gyoza, loaded fries plus a couple of other options. We both had loaded fries, which at over £8 meant that with a can on soft drink each you're looking at nearly £22 for two people's lunch. Food itself was good, nothing spectacular but I'd say better than average for street food - amount of fries meant both pretty full afterwards, could have done with some more topping for the price but otherwise a good lunch, with the added bonus...

Popped into Stacks for something to eat and after wandering around decided to try Bao Down. The plan was to try a few places so we got 2 bao buns and some fries. It was very quiet so the food was ready very quickly. The duck and the crispy prawn buns were both very good but would have been better with the prawn chopped up but I guess that's a presentation thing. Everything we tried was hot and delicious, would like to get back to try other offerings...

Waited ages for our food. Eventually went and asked and it had been sitting a while, apparently the notification system wasn't working. It was stone cold, so we asked them to warm it up. It was shoved in the microwave for 30 seconds. The katsu bao bun was 1 tiny bit of battered chicken with some Spring onions on top, no katsu sauce. It was over £10 for two buns (£9 plus the tip that gets added and the service charge). Won't go here again, very...