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Soup dumplings made fresh daily on Washtenaw Avenue.BaoBao is built around xiaolongbao, the soup dumpling that holds gelatinized broth inside the filling and releases it when steamed. The menu lists six versions of it, alongside potstickers, appetizers and dinner plates. The room is modern and bright, seats about 78, and the dough is made fresh daily in a prep area you can see from the tables.It is open all seven days, including Tuesday, which many of the county's Chinese kitchens are not.The catch is the break. BaoBao serves 11am to 2:30pm and then shuts until 4:30pm, every day. If you arrive at 3pm you are looking at a locked door, and that two-hour gap is the widest of any Chinese restaurant in the area.Find it at 3365 Washtenaw Ave, Suite E. The ordering link on its Google listing points at a Toast page for a Big Beaver Road address in Troy, so order by phone at (734) 800-6286 if you want to be certain which kitchen is cooking.
