French Puff Pastries Stuffed with Pork

These are not the puff pastries of fancy Parisian bakeries; these are meat-filled pastries that are sold in every Little Saigon bakery. Pate chaud is a French creation, but it has become so popular with the Vietnamese that they have made it their own. The meat in the pastry is similar to meat stuffed in other Vietnamese treats. Just ask for the ba-tay show (the p is pronounced like b; there’s no p sound in the Vietnamese language). Over the years the pastries have gotte