Steamed Buns with Char Siew (roast pork) filling

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August 7, 2008

I hesitate to call this a char siew pau (or char siew bao). It isn’t a char siew pau (steamed bun with roast pork filling) in the truest sense of the word. I guess you could call this a char siew pau with a twist.

char siew pau

A usual char siew pau will only have the white steamed dough wrapped around the char siew (roast pork) bits inside. This one which I bought from Desa Seri Petaling has the white pau dough wrapped around a steamed cake (mah lai ko) middle.The char siew is wrapped up inside.

char siew pau

Eaten hot, it is delicious.

The char siew is a little on the sweet side, but it is tempered beautifully by the pau dough and the mah lai ko cake which isn’t sweet at all. I actually really enjoyed it.

Each bun retails for RM1.60 at the famous Loh Mai Kai pau shop at Jalan Radin Anum 1 in Desa Seri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur. I’ll be writing about the special Loh Mai Kai pau soon so stay tuned!

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I would like to try this new product too :)

Comment by mimid3vils on August 7, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

whoa, this does look kinda tasty :P

Comment by Leona on August 7, 2008 @ 3:12 pm

wow…THIS is interesting! Haha…never seen it before… :p

Comment by twosuperheroes on August 7, 2008 @ 4:58 pm

I have never heard of this before. Very special indeed.

Comment by Andie Summerkiss on August 8, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

This is the first time I have seen such siew pau. If you have time, do visit my website at http://penangfoodgalore.blogspot.com/.

Comment by Fortesfidelis on August 11, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

@twosuperheroes: Fascinating isn’t it?!

Comment by Pink Parisian on August 13, 2008 @ 10:16 am

andd im supposed to be on a diet :( thank heavens i hardly know the location of this place… or elsee… i wouldnt def give in to temptations.

Comment by ancient on August 13, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

@ancient: Oops! The location is coming up in an upcoming post! ;)

Comment by Pink Parisian on August 13, 2008 @ 3:20 pm

[...] also had dim sum but it wasn’t much to shout about. This shop is also where I got the Char Siew Ma Lai Ko pau that I wrote above before. Now, that one is worth [...]

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