Cha siu baau are Cantonese barbecue pork buns (baozi). The buns are filled with barbecue-flavoured char siu pork. They are served as a type of dim sum during yum cha and are sometimes sold in Chinese bakeries.

Bao is a tasty sweet, chewy bread, with a consistency somewhere between a dumpling and a doughnut. It becomes something truly transcendent when it's made into char siu (barbecue pork) bao, and is stuffed with heavily seasoned savoury glazed pig lumps.

In celebration of the Chinese New Year we wanted to make these delicious BBQ Pork Buns. This year the Chinese new year begins on Feb. 7, 2008, and is the year 4706 according to the Chinese calendar. It is also the year of the “Rat”.

TV audiences in Japan couldn't get enough of the steam bun video. Shot secretly in China and screened repeatedly on Japanese networks, the footage showed a street vendor soak and mince corrugated cardboard, stuff it into dough and sell it as a pork-filled bun.The trouble was that the video was faked,but it now seems it was based on facts...........

Who cares about cholesterol on death row? For his final meal TJ Jones requested a Triple meat cheeseburger with fried bun and everything, French fries, ketchup, four pieces of chicken (two legs and two thighs), and one fried pork chop sandwich.

Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.