Brisket or Char Siu Baked Bao

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

Ancient Chinese kitchens lacked ovens, and that’s why traditional Chinese breads are steamed. Today, even when conventional ovens are in almost every household, steamed bread is still widely accepted and eaten all over the world. If you have not had freshly steamed bread, you don’t know what you are missing. In Mandarin, we call it bao (包). (This word is usually used on swanky American menus and associated with some sort of steamed bread with some sort of meat tucked between it, s