3 TIPS Best Chinese BBQ Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao) | Dim Sum Thursdays | Wally Cooks Everything

This baked Char Siu Bao recipe is based on one of the best Chinese dim sum restaurants in NYC called Hop Shing. This is an easy hand mixed recipe that makes 8 delicious BBQ pork buns for yourself. Or to sell overpriced to your friends and family.
The insides of these char siu baos are so moist and tender. How'd I do it? If you follow my 3 tips to bake the best BBQ pork buns you will know my secrets and enjoy some really good Chinese dim sum restaurant baked goodies at home.
Timecode:
1:09 - 1️⃣ Make tangzhoung
2:35 - 2️⃣ Char siu bao filling recipe
2:58 - 3️⃣ FIRST BIG tip for delicious char siu baos
3:55 - 4️⃣ SECOND BIG tip for delicious char siu baos
8:07 - 5️⃣ Make char siu bao dough
13:55 - 6️⃣ How to check if your dough is kneaded enough
18:00 - 7️⃣ Rolling and filling
20:17 - 8️⃣ LAST BIG tip for making delicious char siu baos
22:05 - 9️⃣ Meet my harshest critic
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[@WallyCooksEverything]

So I’m going to get ahead by putting it out there cause I know many of you will see my dirty stove and comment. You know the saying, cameras make people look fatter. Well my camera made my stove look filthier...

[@oxigenarian9763]

No worries about your stove - usually mine looks like that, too. Alice, on the other hand, is as cute as they come! Wally - can you show us how lobster sauce is made? I'm not even sure if it is real Chinese cuisine or not but my wife loves shrimp with snow peas in lobster sauce.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

@@oxigenarian9763 sure I’ll put lobster sauce on my list. Don’t let Alice’s cuteness fool you she is a troublemaker 😆 Thank so much for the ideas and for watching😃

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

Looks like restaurant buns! 🤤 I used to swoop these baked buns up before work from Great NY Noodletown. Cheap, easy to transport in backpack, and delicious!

[@melbacaniiii4870]

I love this! Thank you... I will have to make my own char siu. Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for this.

[@kata75f]

I made 2 batches 16 these are so GOOD!! I took to my mothers & sisters .So easy to follow directions. Thank you!!!

[@kata75f]

Thank you I am going to try! I Bbq pork yesterday.Thank you! Your daughter looks like a doll!!! She is absolutely beautiful!! God Bless

[@amyho8831]

Going to make this Right now. This was such a good informative video Thank you for sharing. I'll update you how they were

[@mievlog1559]

Wow looks yum

[@NicolePhim-CookingandTravel]

I love bbq pork bun, thank you for your great recipe. Big like and support.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Thank you Nicole! 😊

[@mariaperdigon5603]

Love the recipe and will try it, you’re daughter is sooo cute❤😊

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@deerescigno670]

i grew up in Chinatown and lived there 50 years. Hop Shing was one of my favorite places.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Hop Shing got closed later summer 2020. Really sad this happened 😩 Lots of hard working people in that restaurant jobless. Was one of my favorite places as well. Which is why I wanted to do make this recipe some justice. But I think they used lard which I'll try next time. I just prefer taste of butter. Thank you for watching Dee, take care!👍

[@cafelate9515]

happy new year from New York Wally. Thanks for making these old school favorites. Can you make a jung. You know the banana leaf wrapped with rice and other stuff inside. Thanks.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Gung Hay Fat Choy ❤️🙏 Tye yes I can, but I was thinking about doing Lo Mai Gai but I can't believe I'm having a problem sourcing lotus leaves here. There are lots of lotus leaves here I suppose I can dry my own but don't know if there's a process to it. So I'm currently researching that. Thanks for the patience 😆

[@swong705]

Omg Alice so cute!!!!

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Thank you, she is adorable 🥰 My wife is still debating who she gets her looks from 😂 Oh and Happy Chinese New Years!

[@swong705]

@@WallyCooksEverything Gong Hay Fat Choy

[@thomasthompson4619]

I'll have to try this because we all love pork in the south , but awesome video wally

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Thanks Thomas! I really miss American BBQ and all the amazing side dishes like Mac cheese and cornbread. Maybe one day I’ll make some pull pork ribs and wrap it inside a Chinese style bun 😆

[@thomasthompson4619]

Wally i've been to tokyo and seoul korea and bejing and all over the philippines through our church , i play music it was just a little tour we did 3 years ago and i wish we played in thailand

[@romeoandsusandial5340]

T y for sharing pls next time show us to make moo cake will try it looks good 🙏🙏❤️💕❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌼🌺🌸🌷🌻🌹🍒🍇🍓🍏🙏🙏

[@jimbort_de_breces]

Hey Walley, I am a very recent (sober) subscriber. My first Char Siu Bao was on Mott St. My favorite nostalgic NYC Chinatown restaurant was Wo Hop's, the upstairs street level, and usually at 2am. Was introduced to my second favorite dumpling there, Suey Kow. Maybe you can make those for us. All the best.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Hello! Yes a sober subscriber, awesome 😆 From what my friends back in NYC are telling me many of such places you fondly remember are having difficult time. Let’s hope they remain so we can enjoy them longer.

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

For the bread... can I use AP flour, and regular milk? I also don’t have cake-flour atm... but I remember I could sub it with AP with cornstarch added, iirc.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Yup should be fine with AP flour. Also making own cake flour will be alright ✌️

[@sallysubram8097]

AP flour what kind of flour this you used your buns?

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Hi Sally, 300g bread flour and 20g cake flour 🙏

[@catherinewong157]

Can you steam instead or is that a different dough?

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Totally different flour Catherine. I’ll be doing the white bun, not sure when though 😉

[@swong705]

Can I use cornstarch instead of potato starch

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Yes you can, no problem at all 😃 I used potato starch cause that what I have the most on hand. Otherwise I could’ve used corn starch.

[@jindablackman9846]

Temp? 350F?

[@WallyCooksEverything]

That is correct 350F 👍

[@swong705]

I remember Hop Shing in Chatham Square!!I I thought they had the best Baked Char Siew Bao. Mei Lai Wah to me, overrated.

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Yes! So my char siu bao is based on hop shing. I couldn’t get my oven hot enough to brown the tops like hop shing. But my char siu filling recipe is spot on. Also I could be wrong but I think they used lard. Yeah to me Mei Lai Wah is dryer. Hop shing is more moist and tender definitely a bit undercooked but in a good way.

[@swong705]

@@WallyCooksEverything I saw you put butter and milk powder...I'm lactose intolerant can I sub those two items with something else?

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Hmmm good question. I mentioned I suspect Hop Shing used lard. Not sure you know this or not but lard is widely used in bakeries, it’s in pie crust and makes excellent biscuits. Lard is dairy free. I believe there’s soy milk powder these days.

[@Quarantain]

Like your vids but you really should clean the kitchen and window

[@WallyCooksEverything]

Lol my stove is a bit cleaner now. The windows still need some work though 😉 Thanks for watching and commenting, take care! ✌️