___FOOD 👉🏽 Bienvenue à Bao Land !
Pour @erchenchang , la directrice artistique des restaurants @bao_london à Londres, tout a toujours été matière à créer. À partir de chutes de pâte à bao cuite à la vapeur, cette sculptrice de formation façonne des œuvres oniriques.
Pour @milkdecoration_magazine , elle a transposé les objets du quotidien… en pâte à brioche taïwanaise.
Notre portrait est à retrouver dans le @milkdecoration_magazine actuellement en kiosque.
📸 @alixelay
✒️ @helenerocco
#milkdecoration
I think this belongs to the Mysterious Crime Woman archive ⛓💧💣 Me holding a pair of wavy tear streams from the lonely man.
Screenshot from @serviceabnormal
Tear streams BAO sculpture, 2020
The 3rd BAO Zine poster. You’ll find it on every table at BAO until Sunday.
Fold it up and take it home. That’s what it’s there for. Illustration inspired by a 90s Japanese commercial featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’ve been searching for the music from that video for hours and still can’t find it. Someone please tell me what song it is before I lose my mind!
Search: Nissan cup noodle - Arnold Schwarzenegger on YouTube.
On a roll: at home with the @bao_london founders @erchenchang and @shingtatchung .
The restaurateurs use their house in East London as both a home and a recipe-testing kitchen.
@malagiah paid the pair a visit to discuss their booming bao business, their tradition of full English breakfasts on weekends, and how Erchen dreamed up their son’s bedroom.
Read the full interview at the link in our bio.
📸 @andrewwoffinden
For Issue 02, Erchen Chang (@erchenchang ), co-founder and creative director of @bao_london , writes about a delirious journey through her hometown of Taipei. The kind of night where you don’t know where you will end up next, and what you will be eating.
Beginning with martinis and beef noodles, she moves through secret bars, club floors and 3am congee, before chasing sunrise along the runway at Songshan Airport.
A portrait of a town that can deliver both sensory excess and elemental calm. Where great food is available at all hours.
Pre-order Issue 02 ‘From Minimal to Maximal’ now. Issues ship mid-March.
Photos by @shingtatchung
Drawing is such a strange process for me.
It takes a lot of pottering around just to arrive at the right headspace. But once I’m there, something shifts. It feels like riding a horse across an open field. In the flow, no resistance and feeling sort of invincible.
I have a feeling this is where the Year of the Horse is taking us 🔥
Here’s the evolution and the eliminations of our Good Luck Tee, created with our friends at @carharttwip_uk 9th year in a row 🐎 love you!! 🫶
*Spot the cheeky reference of absurd masculinity 😎
About two months ago, we started thinking about streamlining the menu design - something that would bring all the menus and the dining experience together. It’s been such a joy to work with friends @hatopress to make this happen. Most importantly, we made the zine in a simple two-fold format, which left a blank back page, a space for me to do whatever I wanted and hope to work with artists in the future to occupy this space.
The X-Files ‘I Want to Believe’ poster had been hovering in my head for a while and with the growing cult status of our beef rice (not just me saying it people actually fly in just to taste it, like from Czech Rep!). this silly connection sort of clicked- how something becomes beloved, part of a collective unconscious.
So here it is, from dreaming it up in a meeting under a tight deadline, to late-night whisky-fueled drawing sessions, to first and second drafts, risograph prints, then digital prints. All these layers of love, craft, tactile and digital, now come together. A little joy, straight from the deepest part of our hearts. And you can take a piece of us with you when you leave 🍂
