叉烧酥 Cantonese BBQ Pork Pastry- A Dim Sum Favorite

What is your favorite Dim Sum dish? or are you so overwhelmed by the variety of choices that you don't know even where to begin. Crazy about Chinese Food Chelsey here to help. Let me break it down for you bit by bit starting here with one very popular pick to get your mouth watering - Barbecue Pork Pastries with a buttery flaky crust and sweet and savory filling. Only this time you can make it yourself, save your money and get the sense of DIY satisfaction. Then once you have mastered making it at home an outing to a Dim Sum restaurant with friends and family is still worth a just because if only for the sensory and socially marvelous experience that it is. It's is not just about the food right...or is it? He He

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吉士馅 Cooked Custard Filling for Asian Bakery Breads and Street Snacks

Custard is a french invention but has become very popular throughout Asia. It is frequenlty seen as a filling or decoration in Asian Bakery pastries and breads and in street snacks. My readers that have been to Japan or Taiwan, this is the filling used in 車輪餅Wheel Cakes, 雞蛋糕Egg Cakes and 銅鑼燒Dorayaki as well as many 麵包店蛋奶麵包bakery custard breads. I have included the Chinese Character so you can browse the internet and look and all the yummy creations Asian has to offer and for some to take a walk down memory lane. This recipe for custard is top of the line in custard recipes. The Japanese and Taiwanese took a delicious French invention and made it even better if that is possible. Feel free to use it in anyway you want, not just in Asian cooking.

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台式蛋饼 Taiwan Crispy Breakfast Egg Wrap-Dan Bing

If you have been to Taiwan you are very likely to have tried Dan Bing and also likely to still have cravings for it.You don't have to suffer craving anymore because this post will teach you how you can make them at home including the delicious Sweet brown sauce that they serve it with in Taiwan!

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新疆馕 Xinjiang Naan Bread

To date Xinjiang Naan is the most popular recipe on this blog with the highest number of views. The post was looking pretty rough as it was among my first posts on this blog which I started 4 years ago. So I gave it a new photo shoot as well as step-by step pictures and I have moved the post to the top so that all those who are have just recently started following this blog will notice it. It is most definitely a must try recipe. Just looked at how airy, light and soft the inside is and how brown and crispy the exterior is. And loaded with flavorful seasoning to boot.

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北海道牛乳土司（汤种法）Hokkaido Milk Bread (TangZhong Method)

It was snowing while I was taking pictures. Great timing! Snow just seems to fit the scene so perfectly as this bread making technique originated in Japan. If only I had some cherry blossom twigs...ah, oh well. I wish you could smell the fragrance of this bread. Very different from the fragrance of bread in the west.

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叉烧包 Cantonese Dim Sum BBQ Pork Steamed Buns

This is one of many delicious ways you can use up left over BBQ Pork-Char Siew. The dough for this style of Baozi differs from that commonly used for other stuffed steamed breads. The dough used to make Cantonese BBQ Pork Steamed Buns has more of a biscuit like texture but at the same time being light and fluffy like bread.

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北京肉陷饼 Pork and Vegetable Stuffed Flatbread

These are one of many different types of stuffed flatbreads found in China. These are a pan fried bread. You can find a baked stuffed flatbread here. Bing is a Chinese word that can be used for just about any food that is flat, bread like and usually round such as cookies, biscuits, flat breads, ect.

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花式豆沙面包 Asian Bakery Chrysanthemum Snack Bread with Red Bean Filling

My house smelled like an asian bakery today, what a wonderful smell it was.The dough used to make these buns is the same dough used for at least half the little bread snacks you find in a typical Asian bakery. It is a super soft, puffy/airy (similar to puff pastry but softer like a roll), sweet and fragrant bread. What came out of my kitchen today was spot on. Happy happy day for me! I love asian bakeries and now I can start recreating the numerous tasty munchies I used to frequently indulge in when I lived in Taiwan and Beijing. Yay! They have been missed much.

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煎饼 Jian Bing

Jian Bing or Chinese Egg Crepe originated in Tian jing, a city famous for their snacks

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生煎包 Little Potsticker Pork Buns

These are a common breakfast in Shanghai also but popular all over China and Taiwan. I remember when I would get them in Taiwan they would always ask me 你要不要辣？Would you like it spicy? I always said Yes, Yes, and Yes! They had the most delicious chili sauce that they would inject into the buns, right there in front of you. I miss those so much.

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包子Bao zi-Steamed Bread with Cabbage Pork Filling

I struggled for a long time (years) to get the dough right for baozi. I fell in love with baozi in Taiwan, man are the baozi there good, and I wanted to get the same texture and mouth feel.

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葱抓饼 Green Onion Bread

 Flaky, soft, layered, fragrant and flavorful flat bread.

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肠蛋饼 Soft Egg Bing

Taiwan has many Dan Bing varieties. This version is made with a batter and is more crepe like. All are delicious but the crepe variety featured in this post are much faster and easier to cook up.
The ones in the picture have chopped green onion in the batter but it is also done plain. After it is cooked up you can just roll it up and Dizzle with Sweet Sauce (recipe found in this post) or sweet chili sauce or you can stuff with pork floss. thinly sliced ham or sausage. Corn and processed cheese slices can also be added on top of the egg while it is cooking. Corn and cheese Dan Bing was my favorite way to have Dan Bing while living in Taiwan.

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烘烤馅饼 Baked Meat Pies

I can't say delicious enough; flaky pastry encasing flavor bursting fillings. The first time I had these was in Beijing but they are from Taiwan. There were a handful of shops selling these in Beijing and the line ups were insane when ever we would go but they were well worth the wait.

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韭菜盒子 Chinese Garlic Chive Pocket

The English have their turnovers and the South American's their Empanadas. I am sure there are many other cultures that have their own versions of this tasty snack. Knowing this I was still a little surprise when I first discovered that Chinese also have there own version that is pan fried. These are done Taiwan style but not unlike turnovers or empanadas, there are many variations. Those found in Beijing leave out the pork and noodles and have a simple filling of chive, egg, chicken bouillion and sesame oil, you can watch this style being made in this video here.

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芝麻酱烧饼Chinese Sesame Biscuits

These are another one of Mike's and My Favourite Snacks. We just recently discovered Barbecued Shao Bing (Shao Bing is the romanization of the name of this snack in Chinese). You can get these barbecued up just like Xinjiang Naan a number of posts back; basted with chili garlic sauce and sprinkled with cumin and Chinese chili powder as they roast over the coals.

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