Baked Lop Cheong Buns

The final recipe in this lesson is a perfect illustration of the unending flexibility of Cantonese dim sum—its ability to adapt and create. Among dim sum chefs, there is an unspoken, but understood, goal to create one new dim sum every day. I have created this one, which I call lop cheong geun, with Chinese sausages and a traditional dough I particularly like. I made these buns once on a whim more than ten years ago, and they were received with pleasure, which is what the little dish