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Totoro Steamed buns

We made some steamed buns/mantao together this weekend. Kids just watched My Neighbor Totoro recently and since the color involved looks quite simple so we went ahead with this character bun 😅 Not perfectly shaped but not so bad for…

Dairy-free Red Bean Steamed buns 豆沙包

After making Chinese red bean pastry, I’m still experimenting with the red bean paste recipe 😅 so I bought another bag of red bean and make another round of the paste. Still not satisfied by the consistency as it’s on…

Steamed Buns Day with Kids

I was experimenting with chrysanthemum goji berry flavored steamed buns and kids requested to make their own buns too 😅 so I had to give them a batch of dough to “work on”. Gave them dough made with thermomix quick…

挂包/Steamed Folded Buns

Trying out @chez.jorge steamed buns recipe because I watched his live IG and the fluffy buns were too hard to resist 😅 I made them into the folded buns (Chez Jorge also had a folded steamed buns recipe on his website here)….

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Fluffy Char Siew Bao/Steamed buns

Finally found a recipe which produce very fluffy steamed buns. Thank you @chompmom for sharing this dough recipe from https://tasteasianfood.com/char-siu-bao-recipe/ The only downside is there’s 50g of shortening for 20 buns. So each buns contain 2.5g of shortening 🤪 I will try…

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Hua Juan/ Spring Onion Steamed buns

Another batch of not-satisfying-attempt for steamed buns as I tried using a new recipe with shortening. Hoping for that fluffy texture I wanted to achieve. I felt that I had under kneaded the dough which affected the texture and also…

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Vegan Turnip Steamed Buns

I am still on the search for a nice steamed bun recipe. Initially, I was adamant about not using vegetable shortening. After reading many recipes, I have noticed that the key to get fluffy texture and not the bready kind…

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Char Siew Buns and Vegetable Buns

It was a “bao” day (steamed buns day) for us 😅 hubby said he wants vegetable buns but the kids love their char siew buns more. So I decided to make both. Took me 3 hours to make these buns…

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[Thermomix] Quick purple sweet potato steamed buns

Time for some steamed buns again🤣 coz we need some snacks and “edible sensory play” for the kids. This time I didn’t reduce the olive oil and kids were complaining that dough is too sticky for them to shape 😝…

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[Thermomix] steamed buns/ mantou

Keeping kids at home during this pandemic time means we have to think of endless activities with them 😐 they are either bored/hungry all-day-long. Very often they request for making steamed buns/mantou as they get to have some edible sensory…

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Sunday Steamed buns

It’s becoming our Sunday activity with the kids 😅 making steamed buns together.

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.This time we made 3 colors as requested by the little ms. N.

I made a bigger batch of dough using the thermomix (total dough about 494g I.e 16buns of about 30g Each)

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.adjusted recipe from perfection with Thermomix in 7 days -quick steamed buns with some adjustments.

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Steamed Cute looking bun (Dairy Free)

Followed YouTube recipe by Tinrry baking ( @wangmeijibuns ) she did a clear explanation of all the steps and key points to note! I was in the rush to go out for dinner date with my girls so couldn’t do design…

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Char Siew Bao (叉烧包)

Still looking for my perfect and easy dough recipe for steamed buns… 🤣been testing different dough recipes which doesn’t require shortening , milk or sourdough starter… . This time, I’m using a dough recipe which only uses flour, yeast and…

Steamed vegetable buns 蒸菜包 (Dairy Free)

Ingredients 400~450g turnip, cut into strips 30g carrot, cut into thin strips 2 soaked shiitake mushroom chop into pieces 5 soaked black fungus chop into pieces 15g garlic (about 4 cloves), minced 30~40ml hot water Seasoning 1/4 ~ 1/2 tsp…

Chocolate Mantou

This recipe is modified from @reese_hlac recipe on her YouTube Channel to make it dairy-free. Still need to work on my rolling skill ? her buns look so pretty! Please go watch it.   Here present to you my Dairy…