Last weekend, Evan and I made a trip up to D.C. for our Baohaus NYC pop-up at Toki Underground. Lexus hooked us up with the CT 200h for our drive down. We packed it with over 900 orders of baos, pork belly, beef cheek, and tofu on ice and headed South. There was plenty of French Montana and J.Cole on the stereo all the way, def liked the ipod compatability in the joint. I don’t know if that’s standard on cars these days but I’m usually in yellow cabs so you tell me.

We pulled into Downtown D.C. with only 45 minutes before our scheduled 7pm start time and there was already a line forming outside.

By the time 7pm rolled around Friday night, there was a 3 hour wait for tables at the pop-up. Saturday night, the wait became 6 hours as more people in town heard about it and multiple people came back to back days. Shouts to Chocolate City for all the love! We fux wit you.

Additional images by MMEK

But the trip wasn’t all work… Sunday was the off day so you know I had to hit the Skins/Eagles game. What was supposed to be a Vick/Grossman showdown became the first John Beck sighting of the year. The good guys lost, but Beck looked good and reminded me of a young Rich Gannon. Now we just need Santana to do his best Tim Brown impersonation cause Jabbar Gaffney would drop a baby if he could.

Eddie Huang is chef and owner of Baohaus NYC and good friend of LTD. Read more about him HERE

Lexus tapped Hawaii Mike to test drive the 2011 CT200h hybrid vehicle. Test driving an automobile in New York City is comparable to seeing how slow the car can go, but we managed to challenge the horse power and go…the speed limit West Side Highway before being greeted with the always friendly influx of traffic. Anyways, the CT200h has a front wheel drive, a 1.8 liter-in-line-4 with continuously Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i) engine with 134hp, and goes from 0-60mph in 9.8 seconds.

Watch as we make a stop by Baohaus and chill with Chairman Bao himself, Eddie Huang, to discuss dirty couches, food, and more!

Also, make sure to check out Tamara Palmer’s interview with Eddie at Baohaus over a new-age East vs. West coast restaurant beef here.