Food, Glorious Food

The char siu bao is a dimsum staple. Sweet, juicy bits of Chinese bbq pork oozing out of the soft, sweet bun.

If you don’t have steamer baskets, use a wok or a big pot with a
vegetable steamer (or an inverted bowl), but place the buns on a heat
proof plate to steam, so to avoid being splashed by the water beneath.
If you live near a Chinatown, you can easily get a steamer rack for
less than a dollar (you can find them in the “aisle” outside the shop,
by the sidewalk — what marketers would call term “the impulse buy
placement”. Go figure.)…more