Red Bean Bao_Natural yeast 天然酵母_ 红豆包子

Earlier i taught you to split sourdough starter into two, one feed with all purpose flour and another with bread flour ( can use to make bread). So i can use the starter that cultured with all purpose flour to make steamed baozi, mantou or buns. Actually sourdough starter is like Chinese so called 老面.

Pumpkin Rose buns_with natural yeast 天然酵母_南瓜玫瑰形馒头

When i was planning to make some buns using natural yeast from sourdough starter, a rose shape came into my mind since this Sunday is Mother's day. I also used some pandan extract to make the leaf. This is wholesome buns which has no preservative added, using sourdough starter and no artificial colouring.

Liu Sha Bao (Salted Egg Yolk Custard Bun) 黃金流沙包

Liu Sha Bao is one of my daughter's favorite dim sum, so i try my hand to make it at home. Liu Sha Bao is a one of the popular bao in dim sum restaurant. For a good Liu Sha Bao, the salted egg yolk custard must flowing out like lava when you first bite it. Anyway, my first Liu Sha Bao's didn't achieve the flowing out filling, but the custard filling tasted was so yummy, exactly like that one served in dim sum restaurant. Even i couldn't achieve like the real Liu Sha Bao, i still sharing this recipe here, as i know some of you might not like the flowing lava filling ,feel it a bit messy when eating it , then you can try this recipe.

Panda Baozi 熊猫包子

At first i was planning to make panda cartoon character bread buns, but last minutes decided to change it to baozi as baozi look closer to real panda which has two colours, white and black.

Pumpkin Bao with Chicken and Onions 洋葱鸡肉南瓜包

This morning just realized that today is deadline to submit pumpkin baozi (steamed buns) to "Best recipe for everyone" event. So i decided to make pumpkin bao with chicken and onion filling so can be served as lunch.

Sweet Corn Mantou (steamed buns) 甜粟米馒头

My daughter requested some plain mantou (steamed buns) as she prefer raw and plain steamed buns rather than with filling like normal baozi. Anyway, i didn't make the very raw mantau without any flavours, instead i added some sweet corn cream into it as inspired from a similar sweet corn baozi that i tasted earlier.

Pumpkin Rose Buns 南瓜玫瑰形馒头

At first I was planning to make normal mantou or steamed buns with pumpkin. While the dough was resting, suddenly I think of the rose shape of buns that I have been wanting to try out. This dough is easy to handle and I am glad that these rose buns turned out so good that it gone finished at the same day ^_^.

Steamed Pumpkin Meat Bao 南瓜鲜肉包子



This month is good time to enjoy fresh and cheap pumpkin. At first I was thinking to make these bao into pan fry type. Anyway, last minutes changed to steamed type, as I am lazy to clean the mess after pan fried.

Siew Bao / Flaky BBQ roasted chicken buns 鸡肉烧包



This is another work under 吃饱饭没事做 ? (Having nothing better to do after being fed) ^_^. Actually I was busy yesterday but some how I decided to make this Siew Bao which I have been wanting to get my hands on how to homemade this yummy Siew Bao.

Chicken and Onions Bao (steamed buns) 洋葱鸡肉包

I have been wanting to make a bao ( filled steamed buns) that has the taste from my childhood memory. When I was a kid, I like to buy big bao from a coffee shop that they have very nice chicken and hard-boiled eggs as the filling. Especially they added a lot of onion, very sweet and yummy.

From the recent many food safety cases, we understand that many manufacturers are adding many kind of unhealthy substances to make our foods taste better, more QQ (elastic texture), springy, fluffy, or look white and nice! I started to ask myself do I need to add all these substances or many kind of white powder to make my homemade foods taste nicer? If I like them, then better I buy from them rather do it myself.

So this time, I try to remove away few ingredients from the previous bao dough recipe, just basic ingredients flour, oil, water and yeast,  to my surprised the bao still turn out good ! No doubt it look yellowish not white, but we feel these bao were so homey and original !
My family gave thumbs up to this chicken and onion bao, my son keep saying the chicken filling is yummy and my daughter asked me to open a shop selling bao, ^_^..

Steamed Pumpkin buns with Lotus paste filling 南瓜小包子

The other day my blogger friend Simple Menu (Yan) forwarded a link to me and asked me : you do you do, you can do this, hahaha..

She always asked me to try out new recipe when she found any interesting recipes. Since i still have half pumpkin sitting in the fridge, why not try this cute pumpkin bun which look like pumpkin shape.

Steamed vegetable dumplings (Chai Kueh) 菜粿 (1)

This is another version of Chai Kueh. The other day I saw Helena tried her sister Jane's chai kueh recipe and she told the dough is easy to handle and not sticky to hands..

Siew Mai (五行色 烧卖)

Have you seen so colourful Siew Mai before? My new invention of Siew Mai based on Chinese Wu Xing colours (五行色).
A very Feng Shui related Siew Mai..

Vegetarian pumpkin dumplings (素煎餃/ 鍋貼)

Last Saturday, my sister brought me to a vegetarian food party which organized by Tzu Chi Malaysia 慈濟 (Tzu Chi Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1966 by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in the impoverished east coast of Taiwan. The Foundation has been contributing to better social and community services, medical care, education and humanism in Taiwan for nearly forty years). My sister is now one of the volunteer in this center. I was truly enjoyed all the yummy vegetarian foods prepared by their members. Also I learnt this vegetarian dumplings from them..

Red Bean Pau (steamed buns)

Usually when i cook red bean dessert soup, my kids just drink soup and left out the red bean. As not to waste food, i save the cooked red bean and add more sugar and continue cook to become thick red bean paste. So i made this red bean Pau (steaming bun) using the homemade red bean paste..

Shanghai Jiaozi (Dumplings) 饺子

After we finished visited Yu Yuan garden and tried that famous Nanxiang steamed dumplings, we walked back to our hotel (just nearby) through a back lane..While walking back, we spotted a simple Jiaozi (dumplings) shop and we decided to give a try since we were not so satisfied with Nanxing dumplings. We were so happy after tasted their Jiaozi, it was so fresh and yummy.

Pau (Chinese steamed buns)

I have finally found a perfect pau (Chinese steamed buns) skin recipe, soft and fluffy and a bit chewy, this is a type of pau skin suits to my preference, I will use this pau skin recipe again and again. Actually I just done pandan kaya , thinking to make Kaya pau tomorrow which is my son Desmond favourite's pau.

Pink steamed bun (Ki Ka Ku) 喜板

The other day, my son Desmond tasted a small piece of pink kuih (bun) given by his friend in the Kindi..Soon he arrived home from Kindi, he wanted me to immediate make for him, he said this bun is very nice, at first I don’t know what he means, after he described more, then I know what he wants, he want a steamed bun called Ki Ka Ku in Hokkein which earlier I made in pandan flavours.

I use KA mixer to knead the dough, it was so easy and quick!

I learnt this bun's Chinese name from Jane, she also has a good recipe for this Ki Ka Ku bun.

Pink steamed buns (Ki Ka Ku) 喜板
** makes about 30pcs

Glutinous rice flour 250g
All purpose flour 300g
Caster sugar 150g (you may increase, if you want sweeter)
Cooking oil 100g (1/2 cup)
Yeast 1 ½ tsp
Water 240g
A drop of red colouring

Banana leaves (soften in hot water, cut into round shape)

1. Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl, knead until soft and smooth.
2. Divide dough to equal portion (about 40g), shape into small round ball. Grease your hand with some cooking oil, place small round ball on the banana leaf, and flatten the dough by pressing your palm on the dough ball.
3. Cover with cling film and rest for 1hour
4. Steam over hot boiling water for 15mins or until cooked.

Happy Cooking !!