People said that “food brings everyone together”, especially during the festive season. 😀 Canadian magician Bao Hoang expressed this phrase in form of playing cards. He established BaoBao Restaurant, a card brand that integrates food with playing cards.
The brand explores minimalistic designed cards fit for magic and cardistry with unique packaging on the boxes. He has successfully produced and fulfilled some decks within the brand, such as the Instant Noodles Playing Cards (Normal and Spicy) and Boba Playing Cards (Brown Sugar and Matcha). Now he released a cute deck- Bao Buns Playing Cards, a deck based on bao buns, steamed white dough with BBQ pork fillings.
The tuck box of the deck has two layers, together to create the impression of woven bamboo steam baskets. The outer layer is the steam basket cover, made with premium matte cardstock with golden brown colors and embossed patterns of woven bamboo.
The inner layer is the main box, featuring the inside of the basket filled with 6 cute bao buns and mirrors the back design of the cards. The deck is complete with a custom-numbered seal in the shape of a cute bao bun character.
The card back design is a minimalistic casino-style design of a small basket with a cute bao bun on both sides with a woven bamboo steamer basket pattern for the background.
The numbered cards featured slightly modified pips with custom pip arrangments. The red suits are changed into golden brown color to match its color scheme.
The court cards are customized with cute faces, with each of the royals interacting with the food associated with the deck. The Jokers featured mirrored illustrations of an opened steam basket with a cute bao bun inside, smiling and acting innocent.
The cards will be produced by Taiwan Playing Cards using their Casino Quality Paper with Legendary Luxury Finish. Pledge starts at $13 for a single deck on Kickstarter.
