T.P. Banh Bao 2 — Restaurant in Garden Grove

I was referred to this place by my brother's girlfriend a year ago, and I have to say I go here frequently now. This is the one located on Euclid and Garden Grove. The baos are amazing and perfectly sized where you can several at a time. And the proportion of dough to meat is perfect since most places will have too much dough and you're left feeling super full without satisfaction. Every one of their meat baos are great! Even the vegetarian baos. If you haven't had their fried baos, try them! Quick service, even if there are lines. Some of their baos run out fast. I always buy extra and freeze them to satiate midnite cravings.

I normally would give 5 stars but deducted one star because the brother who works here is just downright rude. The entire family and staff are super friendly and helpful. But I came in today (August 10th at or around 1:15PM) to purchase some baos and inquired if they had their durian bao (sau rieng) since it was not on their in-store menu (but on their business card menu). Legit question since items change all the time but not the menu. Unfortunately the brother helped me today. And when I inquired about the durian bao, his response was "we have, its number #14." But the item description for #14 reads "mango and pineapple" and I calmly told him that. His response was "no, it's #14, I just told you." To which I replied STILL calmly "then why does it say mango and pineapple for #14, which is confusing." And he shouted back "I TOLD YOU, #14!" Seriously, what a douche. Clearly it's NOT #14, and why not just tell customers "its not shown on our menu on the board, but we do have it." Don't provide confusing information and yell at customers because the information you provide is wrong. Don't tell me its an apple even though its an orange BUT is indeed an apple merely because you say it is. Perhaps he was having a bad day, but even so do not take it out on your customers (especially when the information provided was incorrect). Love the family and staff, but be weary of this douche of a brother. I think he's the brother because he sounds and looks similar to the sisters (who are awesome btw and super friendly).

Will I keep coming back to this place? YES. Because their baos are amazing, and their staff, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DOUCHE BROTHER, are super nice. My suggestion to the owners: keep your brother in the back...don't let him socialize or deal with the customers. The fact that I purchase on average 4-8boxes a week (to give to family and friends as well as self consume), and purchase with me 20boxes when I go out of state to give as gifts to friends, makes it obvious I am a huge, loyal fan of this place. But seriously, dump the brother...he...

They have really great banh bao. The rumors about it being one of the best banh bao place in town are true! My mother-in-law approves & introduced me to this place & my family gets this whenever we have cravings for some banh bao varieties. My MIL is extremely picky about Vietnamese food! When my MIL says it's good then it must be really good because she always compares everything to the authentic ways back in Vietnam.

The banh bao here are perfect snack sized & fairly priced unlike the ridiculously large ones at other Banh Mi places in town where they are stingy on the meats/stuffings & is mostly covered with lots of white flour/dough to make it look larger. Banh bao at TP is a good quick snack & I like to pick it up when I want something to snack on before or after a full meal. I usually get the steamed #2 Thap Cam with Trung Cut (Combination Pork with Quail Egg) but I decided to try the deep fried ones one day & I was hooked ever since! It's the BOMB DOT COM of DEEP FRIED GOODNESS!

There's so many variety of options & choices for filling from meats to sweets. I'm a bit disappointed that it's not really fresh! It's all frozen and we had to wait over 30 minutes to have a dozen of banh bao steamed one time when I took all of my coworkers there for lunch. I personally prefer to buy it cold now & steam them myself at home.

THEY TAKE CASH ONLY!

Parking is difficult because there's limited space in the front so look for parking to the left of the market. If you go on the weekends, try to go earlier because they will be sold out of the popular...

First time I've heard of anyone deep frying steamed buns before so I had to try it. I wanted the veggie bun and they asked if I was vegetarian - they only deep fry their meat buns b/c the oil is a meat-based oil. I'm semi-vegetarian, which means I'm flexible. Especially if the meat in question is particularly tasty. :D So they were nice enough to deep fry the vegetarian buns for me. Woohoo! They were pretty good - the bun part seemed kind of like a savory donut taste/texture. Lots of different ingredients inside which seemed include corn, peas, mushroom, maybe potato and cabbage?

I also got the durian egg custard, which had a little stronger than a hint of durian flavor. Pretty good (if you love durian) but the bun wasn't has soft as I expected it to be and a little denser than the fluffy ones you get at Chinese dimsum places.

Most of the customers were buying cases of these buns to take (and I assume steam at) home. So I felt like I was doing something wrong by buying just a couple at a time.

Fyi, it took about 10-15 min for them to fry/steam the buns, so it's a...