Pear Bao - North York

This is one of my favorite spots when I'm craving for delicious baos! Located inside Upper East Food club, Pear serves a variety of fresh and fluffy baos. They have vegetarian options as well, so there's something for you if you're not into eating meat! What I enjoy the most is how soft and airy their buns are, you can tell it's made fresh! I usually order the duck bao, but decided to try their new pulled pork series! I got the Texas BBQ pulled pork and Thai sweet chilli pulled pork as they're only here for a limited time. The filling was very juicy, tender and I liked the Smokey flavour it had. Between the two, I probably prefer the Texas BBQ one, but both were tasty! Overall I wasn't disappointed and definitely recommend giving them a visit if you haven't!!

It looks like they've changed their recipes, in the past the toppings were nicely marinated and taste great. Went today and it looks like they've changed to a cooked meat add sauce to it model. Very disappointed. Went from 5 star to this.

I got the duck bao and this one was amazing. the crispiness gives it a variation of texture. its a must try!

Pear is a bao and rice box specialist located at Upper East Food Club where you can also locate Machi Machi, Wonder Egg, Torched Pressed Sushi and Alethea Flowers! I ordered their house special duck bao which includes duck, cucumber and ground peanuts. These baos were super flavourful and so stuffed!! My friend ordered the spicy beef bao which includes some veggies and their signature spicy beef. Both baos were nicely balanced.

Sorry but any place that sells foie gras will only EVER get a bad review from me. For those who don’t know what foie gras is, it’s fatty duck liver.... the ducks are kept by the thousands in dark factory farms and are force fed by metal pipes twice each day, pumping up to 2.2 pounds of grain and fat into their stomachs, or geese three times a day, up to 4 pounds daily. Shame on this restaurant for selling supporting this kind of abuse.