Baked Chinese BBQ Chicken Buns (Siew Pao)
August 01, 2013
Crusty and crumbly Malaysians' favorite; Baked Chinese BBQ chicken buns, also known as Siew Pao
Before I start blabbering ...
I would like to make it clear that these Chicken Xiu Pao are not something that I recently baked. It has been 'sitting and waiting'... in one of my folders on my hard drive for almost 2 months now.
There are a few more; recipes/photos that needed me to type and tweak
When my 'post productivity' came to half what I used to post in my early days of blogging (those were my crazy days, in years 2009-2010), I wanted my blog to reflect our life and not just about food preparation per se...
I drew up a plan, a workable plan... a flow chart:
I cook - shoot - process the photos - type recipe and the gist of the story - click Publish, before the next cooking/photoshoot session, somehow, my flow chart got 'clogged up' by this big giant ugly thing... called "Procrastination"
Procrastination rarely popped into my 'vocabulary' before... but now, it seems to be creeping up on me, just like age and gray hair slowly taking over my life.
... and because of IT ie Procrastination, I have yet to start baking Eid-ul-Fitr cookies... 6 to 7 days left
Before I start blabbering ...
I would like to make it clear that these Chicken Xiu Pao are not something that I recently baked. It has been 'sitting and waiting'... in one of my folders on my hard drive for almost 2 months now.
There are a few more; recipes/photos that needed me to type and tweak
When my 'post productivity' came to half what I used to post in my early days of blogging (those were my crazy days, in years 2009-2010), I wanted my blog to reflect our life and not just about food preparation per se...
I drew up a plan, a workable plan... a flow chart:
I cook - shoot - process the photos - type recipe and the gist of the story - click Publish, before the next cooking/photoshoot session, somehow, my flow chart got 'clogged up' by this big giant ugly thing... called "Procrastination"
Procrastination rarely popped into my 'vocabulary' before... but now, it seems to be creeping up on me, just like age and gray hair slowly taking over my life.
... and because of IT ie Procrastination, I have yet to start baking Eid-ul-Fitr cookies... 6 to 7 days left
Hi Lisa
ReplyDeleteSiu Pao is one of my favourite! I even have baked this while I'm on holiday in NZ so my other family members got to taste this home country specialty. Your siu pao look so beautifully baked and not even one open mouth at all! I still sucks in pleating and folding it all up.
I love these & the steamed ones are my fav these days. Your baked ones look perfect. Ask me about procrastination! I am a big procrastination queen when it comes to uploading on blog:)
ReplyDeleteA wonderfully speciality! Those pretty little bites must taste really good.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Rosa
wah so much hard work, roll here, roll there, but I love these and can't take pork so now these sounds wonderful with chicken.
ReplyDeleteThese are like little chicken bites. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post on Chicken Xiu Pao. They sound quite tasty. Nice photos!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I love Siew Pau!!! Pass me some before they go missing! ;)
ReplyDeleteThese look delicious! I totally understand the procrastination thing, but glad they made it out of your draft folder.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a recipe using two doughs. Very interesting. these look very good!
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