Bao & Noodle

It’s a bit of a stretch to call Bao & Noodle a dim sum restaurant. What it is though is a darn good newish creative Chinese restaurant in the Marigny, a key player in NOLA’s new-school Chinese boom (along with Red’s Chinese). A person could, however, arrive at lunchtime and cobble together a menu of snacks and small bites that would rival some of the country’s best dim sum joints, starting with scallion pancakes, a mock-duck curry bao and the Burmese tea salad. But that would missing out on the house specialty, hand-made noodles served with shrimp and XO sauce or cumin lamb, among other options. (But also, why not just have it all?)