Very good…

My missus went to that supermarket in town, the one that imports all kinds of stuff from everywhere within the country and from countries overseas and came home with this…

As far as I know, the only good ones available in town are from this shop and also from those dim sum selections at one Chinese restaurant here. I guess the latter are freshly made but the ones at the former are actually brought in frozen from the main shop in Kuching – they only steam them for sale here. They started off at RM1.50 each in 2017 and now they are over RM2.00 each. I have not been to the dim sum breakfast at that Chinese restaurant so I am not sure how much theirs cost now. If I remember correctly, they were RM4.50 for a lau (storey/basket) of 2 a long long time ago.

Where I am concerned, the locally-made ones are not worth the calories. The meat filling may or may not have the right shade of red and it does not even taste of char siew (BBQ pork), not at all. The meat ones may be quite good depending on where one goes to so I may buy those instead sometimes.

These that my missus bought are from Johore, distributed by a company in Skudai but there is no mention as to where exactly the factory that makes the buns is located. The skin is very good and yes, the char siew filling…

…is very nice too.

There are 9 of these mini buns…

…altogether in a pack, tagged at RM9.80 each which means that one costs less than RM1.10. Be forewarned that they are very small and because they are so nice, you may finish off half the pack in one sitting without your realising it!

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