Char Siu Bao/ Chinese BBQ Pork Bun

Char Siu Bao is a Cantonese bbq pork filled steamed bun and is the most popular street food in China. Char Siu is bbq pork and Bao is covered or wrapped. Pork meat is marinated in a maltose-hoisin-rose wine sauce and then grilled over the bbq to a charred, savoury, sweet perfection. Then are then chopped and filled inside a yeast-dough, shaped into buns and steamed. They are served hot, straight from the steamer.

Spiral Curry Puffs

Childhood memories of my birthdays include Mum's cake and beef cutlets, my Aunt's mixed fruit wine and my Grandma's beef and vegetable noodles and chicken and vegetable curry puffs for a high tea, in the evening, after school, when my family and extended family got together to celebrate. My favourite in the list has always been the curry puffs.

Curry puffs found its way into our home menu through my Grandma's Malaysian family connections and it is simply a variation of the Malaysian Karipap. The simplest way of making this is to prepare a poori dough, make small balls and flatten it, fill it with your favourite filling, close the open edges and deep fry in oil (just a stuffed poori).