Big Bao Makan Pet: For People With a Second Stomach for Dessert

You are Big Bao if...

Dessert goes to your second stomach. Free-flow is the dream. And you probably have a food highlight on your IG, maybe more than one.

The quiz page describes Big Bao as one plate in, already planning the next. In the longer line, you are always the friend with the best food recommendations, you love buffets, and you are the one asking if it is time for dessert yet. The art has a bao for a hat, chopsticks in hand and a steamer basket, which feels right. How the quiz decides all this is in our Makan Pets quiz guide.

Big Bao's bestie and its enemy

The bestie is Shiok Sambal. You bring the appetite, they bring the fire. It is mutual: Shiok Sambal's card picks Big Bao too, and between the two of you the order chit runs out of space.

The enemy is Broccoli Beast, and the card is blunt: your round nine scares their meal plan. Broccoli Beast's card agrees from the other side. Free flow does not fit the meal plan, and no amount of "just try one" is changing that.

What Big Bao orders

Everything, ideally in rounds. The order slide starts with dim sum: beancurd skin rolls, pork ribs with red chilli, har gow, and xiao long bao sitting in little red spoons. Then a full spread of seafood and claypot dishes on one table. Then a buffet dessert counter lined with jelly cups and small cakes.

Notice the order of things. Savoury first, a big table second, dessert counter last, because the second stomach only opens at the end. That is not greed, that is pacing.

Want the full line-up? Here are all the Makan Pets with their besties and enemies.

FAQs

What is a Makan Pet?

Makan Pets are the characters in Eventful Tables' foodie personality quiz at eventful-sg.com/makanpets. You answer eight questions about how you eat and the quiz hatches the pet that matches you. There are seven in total, six you can see and one secret.

Who is Big Bao's bestie in Makan Pets?

Shiok Sambal. The card's reason: you bring the appetite, they bring the fire. Shiok Sambal picks Big Bao back as its bestie.

Who does Big Bao fight with?

Broccoli Beast. Big Bao's round nine scares their meal plan, and Broccoli Beast's card says free flow does not fit the meal plan.

How do I find out if I am a Big Bao?

Take the Makan Pets quiz at eventful-sg.com/makanpets. It is eight questions, takes about two minutes and runs in the browser, and it sorts you into one of the Makan Pets at the end.