ISO buns for Ippudo style pork buns

[Wannabfoode]

Anyone know where I can find premade buns for pork buns in the ippudo/momofuko style? Struck out at Mings

[coolaugustmoon]

Hmart sells them. I believe frozen packs of 20. They are made in Brooklyn, vaguely offensive old school "generic Asian person" drawing. Might be called Chef Changs or Uncle Changs. The instructions must be a poor translation as it called for steaming for a number of minutes, but they only took 30 seconds or so in a bamboo basket steamer at my house.

[Wannabfoode]

Thank you. Found them at Ming's on a second unrelated trip, must have been out of stock the first time around. Curiously labelled as "taiwanese hamburger buns."

[kobuta]

LOL. Don't know why that cracks me up.

Most Chinese markets will carry several varieties of mantou, so it would be really unusual to be completely out. Mantou come in a variety of sizes and shapes though, so if you're not picky about having a specific look to your "bao", you should be able to find mantou in the fridge. They even have whole wheat ones now that I enjoy much more than the regular white steamed buns. I also like the ones with swirls of scallion steamed in.

[MC Slim JB]

Mantou is another English spelling you might see in the freezer case.

They're not hard to make if you have the baking skills / patience to make a simple white-bread dough and own a steamer.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[keith]

Thanks for the polite correction of my spelling above. I knew that looked wrong but couldn't figure out which letter was off.

[MC Slim JB]

I think your spelling approximates the proper pronunciation better!

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[galangatron]

the freezer chest at c-mart and hong kong market

[keith]

That's strange. Pretty sure that I've seen them at Ming's before (they are typically frozen and called Mantoh). I think they also had them at C-Mart last time I was there. Alternative would be to get fresh ones at one of the Chinatown bakeries, but I'm not sure how well they reheat.