Bao Magic is a magician heralding from Montreal, Canada. He had been in the art of magic for years and he had been creating magic contents on both YouTube and Instagram. He shares the passion for playing cards like any other people in the community, hence he got the idea of creating his own deck of playing cards. His main theme for his decks are iconic foods and beverages - done as minimalistic back design with custom court cards featuring cute artworks. The decks produced comes with unique packaging that strenghtens the idea for each deck. These cards are produced under the name "BaoBao Restaurant" - so imagine a restaurant that serves food-themed playing cards!
BaoBao Restaurant Menu
This is a menu for the only restaurant that serves playing cards. Each has their unique design and packaging. The choices of food and drink are those that you can enjoy even though the portion is small.
- Instant Noodles = Making noodles is a long process from dough to actually trimming them into thin slices. Hence, instant noodle is created: It is simply a chunk of pre-made noodles packed with seasonings and soup base. All you need is hot water, boil them for 3-5 minutes, mix up the powders, and ready to serve!
- Normal = The back design is a full bleed artwork of yellow noodles with red chopsticks, creating a great fanning visual. The deck is packaged inside a ziplock bag, complete with stickers to imitate soup base and seasonings sachets - just like how you open a single pack of instant noodles. It is in an upright position.
- Spicy = The back design is a bordered version of the Normal one, with red noodles and yellow chopsticks. The ziplock bag is slightly bigger then the previous ones, which allow enough space to get the deck out easily. It is in a sideway position.
- Boba Milk Tea = Popular beverage almost found anywhere in Asia. It is a tea combined with milk and "pearls" made from jelly tapioca. The color of the drink varies from what flavour put in. The deck comes with a custom printed deck sleeve: the sleeve is the cup while the deck is the drink, making it to imitate a plastic cup of boba milk tea.
- Brown Sugar = The popular flavor of boba milk tea. The back design is a two-way graphic artwork of drink splash with boba pearls with a thin border, still creating a great fanning visual.
- Matcha = Green tea flavour of boba milk tea. The overall design is changed into green, and it is done with metallic ink.
- Bao Buns = Steam dough buns filled with juicy and savoury grilled BBQ pork. This food is served in steam baskets made with woven bamboo. You can find this food in Asian cuisine restaurants. The deck comes with a sleeve, and designed to looked like a small version of steam basket dimsum food. The back design features a two-way artwork of cute bun in a basket on top of a woven bamboo pattern background.
- Soju = It's a clear and colorless distilled alcoholic drink specially made in Korea. It can have a lower amount of alcohol of 12,9% to higher amount of 53%. Traditionally it was made by fermenting grains of rice, but then can be from cassava starch. Sweeteners and flavorings can be added to add fruity flavors. The deck comes with a cute shape resembling a small bottle of soju complete with drink label!
- Peach = Peach flavor soju. The back design is a two-way graphic artwork of drink splash with the bottle.
Total Decks: 15 (3)
Decks listed with star are Gilded variants of the decks which are exclusive to Kickstarter.
2020
Instant Noodles
[*] Instant Noodles GILDED Red
[*] Instant Noodles GILDED Gold
2021
Boba Brown Sugar
[*] Boba Brown Sugar GILDED Copper
[*] Boba Brown Sugar GILDED Holographic
2022
Instant Noodles Spicy
[*] Instant Noodles Spicy GILDED Red
[*] Instant Noodles Spicy GILDED Gold
Boba Matcha
[*] Boba Matcha GILDED Green
[*] Boba Matcha GILDED Holographic
2023
Bao Buns
[*] Bao Buns GILDED Rose Gold
[*] Bao Buns GILDED Holographic
TBA
Peach Soju
[*] Peach Soju GILDED Pink
[*] Peach Soju GILDED Lime Green