Friday, August 22, 2014

生肉包

Barli ginkgo dessert (MYR2.50) with a Sang Yuk Bao (MYR1.70) for breakfast

I was told by my friends to remove the outer layer of "skin" from the bao before eating it. Do you do this too?

The meat filling is very compact and I have to slowly eat it to remove any fatty bits from the filling. I have a photo of all the fatty bits that I removed but I am not going to post it here. I like eating char siew bao (BBQ pork bao) better.

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  1. I do the peeling too. A friend used to work in a Pao mass production factory, she said the buns were left for quite a while before packaging, and you never know what might come into contact with the surface (skin), could be cockroaches or flies. So better peel it off to be safe.

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    1. That's what I was told too but sometimes I don't peel the skin especially if I eat in proper restaurant dim sum place.

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    2. You know you live in 1Malaysia right? Even a proper restaurant is not a guarantee of things being done the proper way.
      Better stop planting doubts in your head, hahahaha XD

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    3. Haha, I will take my chances. No, no worries, I know the risk of eating out. :)

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  2. Ooooo...the filling looks really good. My missus peels off the skin, not me. In fact, I love it! The smoothness, the texture as opposed to the roughness of the skin once peeled.

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    1. Why does she peel it off? Does she ask you to peel it off too?

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  3. About peeling off the pau skin, I never do it lastime, but now I do it, hehe, dunno why also.. Lastime I just pop the whole thing in my mouth timmm, no peeling or whatsoever.. I like both char siew pau and sang yok pau, both my favourite..

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    1. Who was the one who asked you to peel?

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    2. Colleagues I think.. Or maybe I always see ppl peeling it then I also fatt hau wana peel kua, hehe..

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    3. Haha, definitely NOT fatt hau,

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  4. I think peeling off the skin is for hygiene reasons. The paus may have been handled by unclean hands. But hee..hee...I don't peel it off.

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    1. Sometimes I peel and sometimes I don't depending on where I am eating those baos.

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  5. barley ginkgo and sang yok bao for breakfast!! ah, this is a nice combination.. I like this!!

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  6. I do peel the skin of the pao.. first for hygiene purpose.. second also to test how fresh the pao is, if you can peel it easily means it's fresh, else probably steamed for days already.. anyway, I only do this in Malaysia~~ :)

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    1. Oh, I do not know this. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Yes, I remove the skin too.. and if they peel off nicely, that means it is fresh... I think I cannot finish one sang yuk.. half is fine with me.. :)

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    1. This is not tai pao. The size is like tao sar pao wor,

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  8. The filling on the pau is very compact. I like that. Sometimes I peel off the outer skin. Sometimes lazy I just eat like that. lol.

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    1. You are like STP. He also likes the compact filling.

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  9. i prefer sang yuk pao rather than the gigantic tai pao..
    sometimes I peel the skin...depends also...sometimes I jst munch straight away.

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    1. But what about sang yuk pao vs char siew pao, which one do you prefer?

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  10. Thank you for not posting pic of pork fat pieces. :p :p

    Yeah heard about removing the skin but lazy to do it. The pau is steamed already so germs mostly gone mah. And the stomach is used to street food anyway.

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    1. You are welcome! :D Good that you have trained your stomach to be strong. :)

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  11. Yes we remove the skin of the pau too :)

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    1. Even in restaurant like Han Room? Unless you don't order paos there. Actually I am not even sure whether they sell paos there.

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  12. I like to eat the bao skin. Smooth and soft. Char siew bao is still my favourite!

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    1. Do you make your own baos too?

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