Siew Bao (Baked BBQ Pork Buns/烧包)

Siew Bao (Baked BBQ Pork Buns/烧包)
Siew Bao (Baked BBQ Pork Buns/烧包) pictures (1 of 6)

I have many readers in Australia, thanks to the growing Malaysian expats there. Earlier this year, I invited the talented A Table for Two to guest post on Rasa Malaysia, and today, I would like to introduce you to yet another uber-talented Malaysian food blogger down under—Ellie of Almost Bourdain. Almost Bourdain is a beautiful blog with excellent food photography and many mouthwatering recipes. Please welcome Almost Bourdain to Rasa Malaysia as she shares the famed Siew Bao (Baked Buns filled with BBQ pork) recipe with us. Oh my, I am drooling at the sight of them!

What better way to thank Rasa Malaysia for inviting me to be her guest on her popular food blog than by making this Siew Bao, a savoury Asian snack made popular by my hometown Seremban, Malaysia.

Seremban is a relatively small town 60km south of Kuala Lumpur. However, it’s well-known among Malaysians for its mouth-watering Siew Bao…(get Almost Bourdain’s Siew Bao recipe after the jump)

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Yakiniku Recipe (Japanese BBQ)

Yakiniku Recipe (Japanese BBQ)

Yakiniku (焼き肉) or Japanese grilled meat/BBQ is my favorite.
I love playing with my food. When I was a child, I often engaged myself in masak-masak (literally means cook-cook in Malay language)—a childhood cottage cooking game where I would “steal” ingredients from my mother’s kitchen and then cooked them into “food” using candles and kid’s cookware. I had the whole set…