Emmy I'm so glad you mentioned that story about grade school. I'm Chinese American also and growing up in Texas it was rare to go to school with other Chinese Americans. I also have those same memories of being mortified when I would bring my lunch to school cause it wasn't a sandwich or something that was typical American. Looking back on it what a silly thing to be embarrassed by because I love cha sui buns! Not to mention how ungrateful I feel now looking back on it cause my mom put so much effort and love into making sure I was sent off to school with something delicious to eat. Thank you for adding that personal story in!
Brandon Wong I remember it all to well too. I've learned to just ignore everyone else's judging eyes because everyone else was missing out on the good stuff
Brandon Wong bruh im polynesian you would been my bestie cos pork and bread is a island fav..i would smash the other kids.lol i know that not good but fo real noodles would eat lunch wid you..pork bun eat lunch wid yah..broooo if you brought meat of any kind as your lunch its over we family now.lol
Emmy! Till the day I am six feet under people will wonder what I have in my lunch bag. I am 38 this year, and just the other day people have asked me in stupendous wonder: "Are you going to drink tea in this heat??" or "what is THAT??" I brought a Char Siu Bao and a Low Mai Goun te be steamed with me. Hahahaha
and by yhe way: I have always loved to share my "other worldly" things with my friends. I still do by cooking for my frinds in their own kitchens. I have never wanted to keep those things for myself. And I still don't.
I understand 💯% about being of a different culture than your classmates at lunch time. My parents used to pack me Puerto Rican food for lunch as a kid and they would tease me. One time I came home super upset begging my parents to just give me a sandwich and more American type foods. They didn’t understand why I was so upset but did so anyways. Then they would tease me for abandoning my culture. That’s when I learned, Do what you want and not for others. So yeah, I’ll eat my arroz con gandules with my gushers and Capri sun and if you don’t like it tough.
Ecryptix ! Wow, I almost cried when I saw your comment because I'm afraid my son will definitely have this kind of issues when he starts school in a few years. Chinese cuisine always have a heavy smell and that will make my son a easy target I guess. I'll definitely tell my son your story which is very inspiring ❤😊
Ecryptix ! thank god my hometown has so many Puerto Ricans. So many people here love Boricua food. Also, I suddenly crave arroz con gandules and alcapurria at 3:24am replying to this lol
emmymadeinjapan I have two questions I hope you can help me with. 1. desiccated coconut, is that the same as the coconut you'd find in a baking isle at the store? 2. is the red bean paste the same paste that is in these sesame seed balls at the Chinese buffet? cantlivewithoutdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sesame-balls.jpg thank you!
Yes to both! Desiccated coconut, or shredded coconut, is usually sweetened when you buy it but they also sell unsweetened too. The red bean paste is the same, called "anko" in Japanese. It's just red beans that's been sweetened and cooked down into a thick paste. There's smooth, with the bean's skins removed, and "chunky" with the skins included. Hope that helps!
From ages 6-9 I lived in Shanghai China with my family for my dad's work. One of my favorite memories I have from the third grade was sitting on my best friends livening room floor watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone and eating pastries like these. I know that was kind of random, but I thought of that memories while watching the video and just thought I'd share it.
I'm Greek and would take Dolmades and spanakopita to school because I love them. Everyone thought they smelled bad. I gave no flips. There was no way I was eating nuggets and frozen corn when I could have spanakopita. 🇬🇷🇺🇸🇬🇷🇺🇸
I'm not asian but I grew up in little Asia in Toronto because apartments there were cheep and sushi and miso soup taste like home to me. When I was about 7 my parents moved us to a small town and for my first day of school my dad made me sushi for my lunch box. The other kids said I was a alien, none of them knew what sushi was. :/
emmy. thank you for making my day again. i needed it. been really depressed. i lost my job and your vid helped me out because you are always so giggly and happy. thank you.
Omg i used to feel the exact same way when i was younger and would crack open my thermos for lunch and there was Mexican soup (Fideo) inside. EVERYONE would look at me and say "whats THAT?" I remember feeling so embarrased.... Lol thanks for sending me down memory lane!
If you go to Chinatown in Toronto - they still place them in mostly pink boxes, with a string or ribbon. The individual cases holding each lovely creation has a slide open door (usually rounded), and each section has tongs. You grab a tray at the start, and some tongs if you like, and go "shopping", lol. MOST are not packaged in cellophane or plastic - but served on a bit of paper underneath! You really made me nostalgic for being back home in Toronto's Chinatown! PS - I always got a few of the egg custard ones too! MMMmmmmm Talking about school lunch shame -OMG! LOL Half of my background is Eastern European, and my Baba (Grandmother) would sometimes send me to school with a "village style FEAST" - stinky garlicky sausages, a BLOCK of cheese, olives, tomatoes and cucumbers, HOT peppers roasted in more garlic and slathered in oil! LOL - and to top it off - a LOAF sized piece of bread! HAHAHA - I was embarrassed - but secretly loved it SO MUCH!
I wish halifax had a china town like toronto and other big canadian cities, it sounds like heaven to me. I have to get my asian cooking supplies from this wonderful little mom and pop type store but the people there are so nice. The lunch your baba would pack for you sounds amazing! (Garlic belongs in everything :) I'm originally from newfoundland and used to take leftovers from jigs/boiled dinner to school or have a cold plate, I never felt embarrassed because it was so damn delicious!
Chinese bakeries are very popular here in Australia, I see them everywhere. Growing up I loved the coconut bao and the custard tart was a favourite too. Now that I'm older I actually like the red bean one. The ones I've seen are a lot smaller with less red bean paste, possibly for us Westerners, lol, but they're absolutely delicious!
Bao are a family favorite! I married into a Chinese-American family and my children have grown up loving all sorts of bao. One year my daughter took a few to drama camp for lunch and she shared them with her friends. The next year the girls remembered and asked if she was going to have them again. Her grandma happily made a large batch for her to share the next day. ❤️
Baos were my childhood!!! The bo lo bao, or pineapple bun, was definitely my favorite. I'm from San Francisco and yeah I'm used to seeing them in either pink boxes or by themselves for self serving 😢😃 Emmy I feel you! Sometimes I would skip lunch or just hide my food when I ate. It's sad that I was so embarrassed to embrace my own (delicious) food culture
ASLRose 4Life Chinese bakeries shouldn't be too hard to find? There are chinese bakeries all over the city (And Daly City too)! There's one on Taraval, at least three on Irving, one on Ocean, at least one on Clement and definitely Chinatown. You should look up the closest one to your place on google or something! I don't have a preference to where I like to go, but a lot of people seem to like Sheng Kee bakery? It's worth checking out!
Yasss, my fave was also bo lo bao as a kid and from sf as well! I used to and probably still only love it plain with no filling like in the video lol ☺
They all look really good. I believe bao comes from Portuguese sweet bread. The word for bread in Portuguese is pão and the little custard tart is a queijada in Portuguese.Portugal I believe colonized some parts of China.
+Huus67209 Huus67209 In times of Marco Polo a lot has been brought over to Europe e.g. pasta: mie or noodles are the spaghetti's, cappelini's etc. The Bao's have a very long heritage. Chinese were kind of secretive about their inventions and things. That's why Japanese instruments are said to be influenced by Chinese instruments but not Chinese or other stuff... but looking at their history a discussion can be started where the origin of things are. For the bao's, the baked versions are influenced by the West. However, the original versions of bao is steamed. That is and will stay Chinese! 😊
My aunt is Korean, and whenever we would have parties or go over her house she would make extra food for all of us to take home. When i was little i used to bring kimbob a lot, or egg pancakes, and all the kids would either look at me funny or try to take a piece of my "sushi".
I'm Chinese American myself, my parents are from Taiwan. This video makes me think of my childhood. Living in the suburbs just outside Boston, it was a weekly custom (or every other or so) to go into Boston's Chinatown to buy groceries at the Chinese supermarket (many veggies and Chinese food products were much rarer back then, so that was the only place to get them). And one stop we always made was to the bakery to buy various bao to eat as breakfast over the next few days. My favorites growing up were the custard cream filled ones and of course the egg custard. I eat it weird though- I use a spoon and scoop out all the eggy goodness. Then eat the crust. but only the ones that come in the little pie tins. There also bai tang gao (or steamed sugar (rice) cake), which look like white wiggly slabs. Sweet goodness- it's really hard to describe the texture, chewy and bouncy yet light and fluffy. My dad loves it just as much as us kids. Another stop? One of those Chinese BBQ places (you know, with the whole Peking ducks hanging in the window?) to get said duck or Char siu (roast pork- the red stuff).
These buns remind me of a type of bread we eat in Greece called tsoureki ! I would love to see a video of you comparing the two ! Great video by the way :)
My husband is a huge fan of bao. I have never seen one with red bean paste in it before. That looks amazing! My daughter and I love red bean paste and I am going to steal the idea of filling a bun with it. We've even done it as a topping on pancakes before. So good!
My Chinese-American boyfriend would meet me at LaGuardia airport in a taxi when I would fly up to see him, always with a box of bao, which I would scarf on the way to whatever theater tickets we'd arranged for that evening in Manhattan. I was always starving when I got off the plane, so a box of warm delicious stuffed rolls was the perfect treat before the show. Consuming them in the backseat of a cab on the way to a Broadway show made it even more special. It was a magical experience. Thanks for reminding me of that special period in my life!
These look scrumptious! Your story reminds me of a few instances in my childhood that was embarrassing. We couldn’t afford lunch, and my elementary school lunch lady would let me “charge” my lunch. It occurred to me when I got older she was just letting me throw with it, and that was so kind of her. I remember dreading having to say charge to her. I also recall field trips and field days where we were suppose to bring a lunch but I recall not having the money for my parents to buy that sort of thing like a soda, chips and one field day, I felt so rich because my dad did take me to the store to get a mellow yellow in a can, and jalapeño lays for the field day! I got made fun of because I had jalapeño chips but I didn’t care because I LOVED pickled jalapeños we’d make to put up for the winter and this reminded me of the flavor. When I changed schools to a major metropolitan area in grade school because we moved, I got on the free lunch program and I’m never felt out of place because most of us had free lunch tickets, I hated it when we had to move from there. One of my favourite memories was the lunch lady I told you about that would give me free lunch, we’d be dropped off early sometimes and my brothers best friend was her son, so in the morning while I waited for school to officially open, she’d give me an ice cream that was for kids who could buy extras for a treat 😂
Yeah I feel you Emmy! My mother is Turkish and used to pack beautiful Turkish food for me for school - kofte which is meatballs, little savoury filled pastries, stuffed vine leaves and courgettes, yoghurt. I was so embarrassed but in hindsight so so lucky and grateful to her.
In elementary school, my filipina mother used to pack me tuna salad on toasted wheat bread with freshly sliced red peppers. Needless to say, 2nd graders during lunch time were unkind and stuck their nose up at my lunch at every turn. I used to beg my mother for white bread, turkey lunchmeat, and sugary snacks! Now, thinking back, I know my mother loved me and took the time to prepare for me a healthy lunch! Thank you for sharing your story, Emmy.
I absolutely adore bean paste. I remember growing up near an Asian supermarket that sold those bao with the bean paste and begging my parents to take me to get them. They were never as fresh as that one looks but I still loved them. Its one of those things I never thought of it as being an acquired taste. I just remember always loving it and just assumed everyone else did too
It wasn't me who was actually shamed by food but my mom, we're Filipinos and when my mom was in elementary back then, they had this Christmas party where they'll go to school with their packed lunch (obviously a lunch better than their ordinary everyday lunches) and my mom's family were more on the poor side so when her classmate starts to open up their lunches, she felt so shy because her classmates' lunches were meat, pork, sausages, chicken (which was obviously a big deal back then and only people who can afford it eats it) while her lunch was just 2 boiled eggs and rice. She had to eat it outside so her classmates won't make fun of her, I remember my mom tearing up while telling me this story and I'm so thankful that she's now successful and that I get to live the life I wanted.
I live in Boston, and I go to the bakeries regularly. Bao Bao is very standard. they taste like any of the ones found up and down Beech St (i call it Bakery St) and Harrison Ave. Top Bread and 101 Bakery are new and they make soft bread and decent sandwiches but they really don't represent the best of Chinatown's bakeries. I prefer Hing Shing Pastry (on the corner next to the gate) thierChar Sui Bao is full of homemade filling and is very generously filled. Better yet is to go on Friday after Noon to get the warm roast pork pies wich is a marriage of flaky hot water pastry mixed with the salty/sweet filling (i buy these for my knitting group and they love them) they also sell out very quickly. For sweet pastries, i go next door to Great Taste Bakery. My favorite being the cream buns, pineapple buns, cookie buns, and wife cakes. but the ham and egg sandwich is a favorite when I take the Bus on a trip[ (Chinatown is 4 blocks from South Station Bus Terminal. and the gate can be seen from the door. I often take friends on guided tours of my favorite places, and it is always nice to bring them to my knitting aunties on Friday.
One time back in elementary school, I was slightly sick, so my mom made me jok for lunch. We didn't have a container that would keep my food warm, so my mom brought it to my school when it was my lunch time. First of all, I was embarrassed hat my mom was here since no one else's mom was there. But when she opened the container to my jok, a group of kids were asking what I was eating. It was absolutely horrible.
Sabrina Wong jok is the best when you are feeling under the weather. I have a similar situation because I didn't have a container to keep soup warm either, except my mom brought me clam chowder and everyone also watched me eat it
I was born in southwestern Pennsylvania and attended elementary school there. It was very common for kids to bring braunschweiger (liver sausage) sandwiches in their lunchboxes. At age 10 my family moved to Florida. I remember being embarrassed about the braunschweiger as other kids had more conventional sandwich fillings like bologna, ham or turkey. Thirty years later (gasp) I have rekindled my love for the once shame-abandoned smooth liver sausage sandwiches with grainy mustard on rye bread.
I was raised in a multicultural environment, everytime someone eats food others never see, they'll be like "what's that?" and we'll end up sharing our food and eating them together, it's nothing like what you've been through, but I'm really thankful to be raised in such a beautiful understanding environment that not everyone can have
Aww I'm so sorry that happened to you Emmy :(. I had a similar experience a long long time ago, when my mother used to pack me delicious crepes for lunch every day. Even teachers would look at me and give weird looks.
i got introduced to bao when i was about 19 and they were the freezer type where you heat them up in the microwave or toaster oven, still love them to this day. ty for sharing your trip down memory lane
Anwar Abdullah because folks in the comments regularly ask her about it when she talks about growing up eating Chinese foods. a lot of people assume because of the name of the channel that she is Japanese.
Anwar Abdullah she has a bigger and more new group of subscribers who haven't been here long enough to know that she is of Chinese heritage. The name automatically throws them off and it clashes with the old subscribers who try to correct the new ones about her true ethnicity, which can start some arguments.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank Toronto, Canada, for giving me the experience of being familiar with a great deal of the foods Emmy has tried. Not only have I eaten all of pastries Emmy ate for this video, I can state *which* Chinese bakeries I've been to that have the best versions of each. Also, Emmy, if you get the chance, try Portuguese custard tarts. They're very similar to the Chinese ones, but with a much flakier pastry and a caramellized top!
I don't have any Asian heritage however after travelling I just cannot get enough of Asian food and I was so sad when I came home that I just couldn't get the lovely food I had tried so I started making it myself now I take bento, onigiri and noodle soups for my lunch at work, everyone always comments on how good my lunch looks! I think the effort is totally worth it and beats a boring sandwich hands down! I adore bao!! There is a bakery in the Asian supermarket the next town along from me, I make a monthly trip for supplies, I try to pick some up when I can but like you say they are best eaten on the day!
emmymadeinjapan I find that Asian bakeries in the mall make their bread/pastries look Much nicer than the ones along the street. It would be interesting for people if you tried steamed rice cake, winter melon pastry, and sponge cake!
Have you ever thought of changing the channel name? Something like "emmytastestheworld"? You're going to always have people confusing your ethnicity because of the channel name.
Emmy made in Japan = born in Japan = Japanese at least logically... and then she explains she's Chinese which... confuses me. (and now I have no idea what a Japanese person really is like!)
I've been subbed to Emmy since middle school and I've just graduated high school. She's expressed in many videos throughout all of that time what she is and where she's from so I see no need for a name change if she doesn't wish to. Plus her channel isn't based around her ethnicity so it shouldn't even matter.
I am also chinese american so it's a lot of fun to see you eat all these childhood favorites! One of my faves that I didn't see you eat was the one that was football shaped. It's split down the middle and filled with butter cream and then the top is sprinkled with shredded coconut. You've made me a subscriber!
I'm dutch and immigrated to canada when I was young so I had some 'different' lunches as well. I got along really well with kids from asian families and we would share our lunches with each other everyday which is where I got to try a lot of things such as bao!
the SF bakeries still give your bun orders in pink boxes, not individually wrapped, just lined up and stacked. it was always fun to open the box and find out which buns your mom ordered! you really can't find it anywhere else!! one of my favorite bao is the nai wong bao, the milk custard bun! baked or steamed, i just LOVE the filling.
I grew up in northern Montana. My family enjoyed a Norwegian type bread called lefsa. It is somewhat like a flour tortilla, but is made with potatoes, thus making it very tender and delicious. We used it for sandwiches or put butter cinnamon and sugar on it. Lovely indeed.
Emmy there's a book I think you'd enjoy (if you haven't read it already) called The Joy Luck Club. Your story about bringing BAO to school as a kid and being embarrassed really reminded me of it. It's about Chinese families to immigrate to America to give their children (and themselves) a better life, and the struggles of balancing all of the new American culture with their Chinese heritage. I absolutely loved it! It can be confusing to read because each chapter focuses on a different character and there are a lot of time jumps, but it's worth the read.
I grew up in NYC, and trips to Manhattan's Chinatown were a regular thing. That stated, my parents kept a kosher home. When dining out, they'd eat non-kosher foods, but pork just wasn't a thing that they'd order. So, it wasn't until 12-year-old me was on a cross-country summer bus tour, that I found myself in SF and had my first pork bun! As much as the rest of the summer was a total snooze, I can still taste that sweet, savory, and - yes - bright red filling as it soaked into that sweet, chewy crumb to this day!
I love seeing all the comments of what everyone was packed for lunch as a kid. I don't have any children but it makes me want to start a list of foods from all different cultures for my future kids to try!
it was so nice to see you so excited about nostalgic foods! i ate buttered cuban bread dipped in cafe con leche a lot as a kid and it weirded people out when i dunked buttered toast in coffee but i thought that was a totally normal thing
One summer, my family went to Austria (my aunt was studying at the Orffschule in Salzburg). I loved the breakfasts at the guesthouse....fresh hard rolls with meats and cheeses, and if we wanted a fresh egg from the farm chickens. Loved the change from the typical cereal breakfasts that as an American that are considered normal.
Emmy , you just made my day . I had one of these in Boston over 40 years ago I never knew what they were called . But I have always remembered how good it was . Thanks for sharing .
One of my favorite Chinese buns are the ones with hotdogs stuck through them. The ones where the hotdogs aren't chopped, which is kind of funny I guess. The ones with pork floss toppings are good too. There's something about the texture about these type of buns that I love. It's soft and chewy, and they have a slight sweetness to them.
These are one of my most favorite baked goods evverrrr. When i moved to australia I was able to try these for the first time and now I cant go out without stopping for one or two. or five. I absolutely loveee them
Emmy I hope your reading this because I just want to tell you that you have the most calming voice I've ever heard and it really helps to relieve my stress when I'm stressed out or mad or sad so thank you for having a calming voice in your videos 😊😊😊😂😂😂
I’m a 50% Portuguese, 50% mixed European from Ontario Canada. My community has a very large East Asian population, so I can remember being in elementary school and seeing my classmates bring in these types of buns all the time. I remember always being jealous because they just looked and smelled so good. When I got older and discovered the local Asian marked I pretty much became hooked. It was a little awkward at first to be the only white person there, but soon enough I felt right at home! Now bao and pan are some of my favourite baked goods.
I am such a dough person! I always get these when I go to a Chinese market. I could eat them for daysssss! I was enjoying these vicariously through this video. Thanks for sharing!
The bao shop near me sells a coconut and cheese bao that's very much like the standard coconut but with, obviously, the addition of cheese. It sounds terrible, but it is genuinely the best one there. The saltiness of the cheese really cuts the sweetness of the coconut and it makes for an incredible bao.
I'm Nigerian American and I remember taking rice and stew for lunch and the kids were curious but thankfully not rude. I was embarrassed until I ate that first spoonful, then it was all worth it! Yum yum! Thanks Emmy!!!
I love when you eat things that are nostalgic to you. Completely adorable. And thank you for bringing Bao Bao Bakery in Boston to my attention. Next time I'm down that way I will have to try stopping by.
This makes me miss where I was when I lived in Michigan. There was a small Asian bakery that had all these different baked goods.... the hot dog buns.. sesame balls.. pork buns.. red bean.. even some glutinous rice treats wrapped in leaves. Ugh I miss it so much...
I'm lucky enough to live in Vancouver, where we have our choice of dozens of great Chinese bakeries. I've got one right across the street that makes all of these, but my favorite is Ga Lay Ngoh Yuuk Bao, or Curry Beef bao... Oh so good. Custard tarts are also a personal fav. One breakfast I love I call a retort, a sort of easy, single serving quiche with a croissant in place of the crust. Whisk two eggs and 1/2 cup cream or milk quickly with a fork. Bit of salt & pepper. Cut the croissant in half and place in the bottom of a pan or small pie tin, cut side up, with a handful of grated swiss or other melty cheese, pour the custard egg mix over it and bake at 375 until it starts to brown (25 to 30 min.) Add ham, bacon, spinach if desired, whatever you want.
Oh yeah multicultural household child here. My lunch box could possibly contain any of the following in any combination:serviceberry jam bannock, biscotti, strouffoli, jerky or pemmican (depending on the season, mind) at snacktime and eggs-and-brains sammiches (but on homemade Italian bread, not wonderbread), thermos of bean and squash soup, or pasta e fagioli, Indian pudding, pizza rustica, or arugula salad for lunch. One learns to anticipate where to sit when eating one's lunch by dint of which Auntie put your lunch up for you.
Growing up in a Filipino American family, I ate a lot of "Siopao" (which is like a huge pork baozi). Not until I moved to Chicago and went to its Chinatown did I discover (and fall in love with) these kinds of baked bao pastries. Awesome review!
I'm half Korean and a lot of mornings my sisters and I would take kimbap or just rice wrapped in kim/gim (laver) to the bus stop as a quick breakfast. We always thought the other kids' reactions were hilarious, not only while we ate it but when we told them what it was.
The egg custard looks like something we make in Portugal called pastel de nata "custard tart". It tends to have more caramelisation on the top and the pastry is a lot flakier but it seems very similar
These are so good! My dad used to always bring these home because he worked downtown near a bakery. On my graduation we stopped and got some of the pork-filled pastries in between our ceremony and dance. Childhood food for me for sure!
I grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and used to go to 711 and get sala pow...similar with the Red pork but steamed. It's amazing how different countries have similar takes on food but cooked differently..i love your food videos!
I've lived in south Texas for 20 years (some on the border, and some in San Antonio), and a delicacy here is barbacoa, made from the head of a cow. It's cooked in a barbecue style, and shredded, usually wrapped in a tortilla as a taco. Because of how long it takes to cook, some places used to only serve it on weekends, and people buy it by the pound. You can get the regular, which has all the fatty "head" bits, or "puro carne", which is just the lean meat, but cooked and seasoned the same way. My husband likes it that way (I'm not a fan of either, TBH). Here in San Antonio, a lot of people wash it down with Big Red soda. There's even a blues song by a local guy, where he mentions driving around "looking for some Barbacoa and Big Red."
I wasn't embarrassed by what was in my lunch. I didn't have breakfast or lunch growing up in Los Angeles. I came home and made myself a box of mac and cheese or a can of tuna I made into sandwiches and that was my one meal a day for 70% of my childhood. That was it's own kind of embarrassing. But I had char siu bao sometimes with my Jewish relatives for Christmas. I would have loved to have it in a lunch box. Those kids didn't know what they were missing. ❤
My family loves food from everywhere, so I brought all types of "weird" food school and was laugh at a lot, I do remember having a friend in the 5th grade who would bring in these types of pastries and alway brought an extra custard tart for me (great friend!!). Always love your videos
I'm a vegetarian, so a lot of people have rolled their eyes at my food choices, but as a kid, one of my favorite sandwiches was liverwurst with ketchup. My family thought it was disgusting and would always ask me how I could eat it, but I loved it and still have fond memories of it. Hello, Winston 2:36. Pop!
My cathartic food moment: I'm not much of a meat eater (and was even less so as a kid), don't like peanut butter, didn't like cheese when I was young, etc etc, so my mom gave me mostly fresh fruit and vegetables for lunch. For some reason, other kids always made fun of this and often even implied that my mother was mean to give me such a meal. I was embarrassed by my preferences and hurt and offended by their comments about my mother, but I was way too shy to speak up so I suffered in silence for years. Thank you for this chance to get it off my chest! Pop!
I've never seen bao like this before. I have eaten and seen the pure white steamed pork filled kind. The coconut one you show looks amazing !! The little custard tarts are my favorite
