Gua Bao

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  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
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By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

Gua bao is a Chinese steamed bread in the shape of an oval, folded in half. It’s sort of like a taco in a sense that meat and vegetables are filled in between two halves of the oval bread and served open-faced. As a rule of thumb, anything you’d put in a sandwich, taco, or pita bread, you can put in a gua bao. Most Asian markets will have cooked, frozen gua bao in the freezer aisle. All you have to do to prepare is to steam it over a double boiler. Make sure that no part of the bao is subme

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