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inSing.com Tried & Tested feature: Char siew bao

Julia Khoo — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:53:45 +0000

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Hubby’s breakfast #029: Buns from D’Bun

Julia Khoo — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:11:31 +0000

Clockwise from left: Big pork bun (S$1.50), mini char siew bao (S$0.70 each), siew mai (S$0.60 each)

Yesterday, I was waiting for SBS bus service 16 in Joo Chiat Road when I saw D’Bun just behind the bus-stop. Ah, let’s buy some 包 (bao / Chinese steamed bun) for hubby’s breakfast, I thought to myself. They have the usual selection of handmade bao and dimsum, available for takeaway only.

Beginning with the siew mai, the meat was smooth and bouncy, but not particularly tasty. Not bad, but neither was it spectacular.

Cross-section of big bao

Hubby and I share-shared the big bao. The interior had a decent amount of meat and egg. The pork filling was tasty, but not juicy enough.

Cross-section of char siew bao

No such issue with the char siew bao. The filling was most luscious! The char siew was deliciously sweet and sticky, with a faint fragrance of oyster sauce.

Because this was made into a mini-sized bun, the dough was thin, sufficiently soft and delicate. In terms of satisfaction, the char siew bao beats the big bao, hands down!

Nearly as small as siew mai, these dainty char siew bao are rather pricey, considering they’re half the size of a regular-sized one. But they’d be great for a tea party or dimsum spread where you don’t want to fill up so quickly or you wanna reserve tummy space for other goodies.

D’Bun
358 Joo Chiat Road
Singapore 427603
Tel: +65 6345 8220
URL: www.dbun.com.sg

Open daily: 8am – 10pm

Hubby’s breakfast #001: Char siew bao

Julia Khoo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:21:16 +0000

Char siew bao 叉烧包, S$0.70 each from Tiong Bahru Pau

Starting today, I’ll put up short posts of hubby’s daily breakfast (prepared by me, of course).

Today’s breakfast – char siew bao from Tiong Bahru Pau. Bought these two days ago from the branch at People’s Park Complex (Blk 32, New Market Road, #01-1038, People’s Park Cooked Food Centre, Singapore 050032). Took them out of the fridge and steamed for 15 minutes. The filling is fragrant and luscious, with good dough-to-filling ratio.