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Pineapple bun
菠蘿包
The soft Hong Kong bakery bun with a sugar, butter and flour topping that cracks in the oven into a diamond pattern like a pineapple's skin, hence the name; there is no pineapple in it. The café's 菠蘿油 is this bun, hot, split and filled with a cold slab of butter. This record is the bought bun; baking it is a weekend project on another page of the dessert volume.
Cautions: read first
- Contains wheat (gluten), egg and milk, mandatory-declaration allergens in Australia.
Preparation
Reheat five minutes at 180°C or thirty seconds in a microwave; best eaten the day it is bought.
Origin
Hong Kong. Every Chinese bakery in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth (Breadtop, for example, and independent bakeries in Chinese suburbs); not at Coles or Woolworths.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
