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Chinese baking?


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Some of us living in countries where home ovens are more common do in fact share our baked goods on this forum. Here are a few of mine:

Curried Beef Pastries

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Winter Melon Cakes (Wife Cakes)

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Pineapple Buns

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Egg Custard Tarts

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Mooncakes

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The egg tart, pineapple bao and curry puff pastries are from Western influence back to the colonial days - with local adaptations, such as using savory fillings (e.g. BBQ pork shreds, curry minced beef) mixed with European style pastry crusts.

The more traditional Chinese bakery items would be moon cakes and crackers/biscuits or sort (e.g. coconut shreds, winter melon filling, red bean paste filling, etc..). Note that Cantonese BBQ items such as char siu and roast chicken are done in clay ovens. In any case... not practical to do at home as we typically have a wok but not oven.

W.K. Leung ("Ah Leung") aka "hzrt8w"
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Ovens just haven't been standard in home kitchens in China. In Hong Kong, the size of kitchens are often tiny and there is just no space for it. We did have one in our kitchen, but it was an electric oven plugged into the wall and it was about the size of a toaster oven. It really wasn't good for baking....

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