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Panfried Buns
2013-03-14 65 views
Aster Pau is the new kid on the block, selling steamed buns and dim sum items from kiosks located at the food halls of shopping malls. Aster offers a wide variety of items ftom the usual charsiew buns, big bau, siew mai, glutinous rice to specialty items usually served only at restaurants such as crystal dumplings and panfried buns with meat filling ('sheng jian bao'). I bought a box of the latter to share. Costing $1.30 each, the sheng jian bao are cup cake sized mounds of bao pastry which are
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Aster Pau is the new kid on the block, selling steamed buns and dim sum items from kiosks located at the food halls of shopping malls. Aster offers a wide variety of items ftom the usual charsiew buns, big bau, siew mai, glutinous rice to specialty items usually served only at restaurants such as crystal dumplings and panfried buns with meat filling ('sheng jian bao'). I bought a box of the latter to share. Costing $1.30 each, the sheng jian bao are cup cake sized mounds of bao pastry which are first steamed, then panfried at point of purchase for a faintly crisp surface. Aster's version looked an attractive brown & cream colour, topped with chopped spring onion. There were three types of fillings viz minced pork with cabbage, minced pork with chopped water chestnuts and chicken. The bau's skin was a little thick, but it was pleasantly soft and slightly sweetish, so it provided a nice contrast to the savoury juicy meat filling. Of the three types of fillings, the best was the minced pork with a bit of chopped water chestnuts adding crunch and sweet juices to the bau. The pork with cabbage was tasty too but lacked textural contrast compared to the version with chopped water chestnuts. The chicken filled sheng jian bau was disappointing. There was fillers added to the minced chicken patty so it was chewy with no taste of chicken. Aster's sheng jian bau are not bad but don't expect restaurant standards or quality ~ the base of the bau had been panfried but it was not crispy. While the filling was pleasantly moist, it is not as juicy as the sheng jian bau you get at restaurants like Paradise Dynasty.
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2013-03-14