It's food: Buns

Posted by Elizabeth on August 29 2012, 16:42pm

Categories: #it's food

I eat buns very often, and I always forget to take pictures in order to make an article about them. Usually I think about it right after taking my first bite and I’m always like, “oh never mind I’ll do it next time”. But this time I resisted my hunger for you dear readers (ok just for one minute but still…).

So, buns, or Mantous, are typical Chinese dumpling made of steamed bread. They are stuffed with all sorts of ingredients, salty or sugary. Originally, buns form part of the basic alimentation of North China where wheat, rather than rice, is grown. However, it is now eaten in the South too, even though not exactly in the same way. Indeed, In the South buns are eaten nearly exclusively as street food.

Actually this is exactly the way I ate them too. There is a shop just down my block, and at 9AM when I go to work the shop is always packed with Chinese waiting for their breakfast. I also have to specify that I always go to the same place, Babi Mantou, because they are the only ones who have the ingredients written in English too. You should see me trying to point out the ones I want, it usually take two minutes for them to understand…but this is life in China :).

Here are the buns I took this time

This is a vegetable stuffed bun. There is mainly lettuce, mustard, mushrooms and toffu in it

this is a hot rice noodle stuffed bun. It's one of my favorite because I fell in love the the rice noodles. I always harass my roommate in order for her to make me some

Last but not least, the black sesame paste stuffed bun, my favorite. It's very sweet and even though it doesn't make up for the pain au chocolat, it's a nice treat.

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