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Home Recipes Chinese Bakery

Chinese Bakery

Chinese bakeries offer a plethora of delicious buns, tarts, and other desserts. We have unlocked the secrets of making many of those treats, and they're all here in our Chinese bakery recipe collection. Try out our Pineapple Buns, Char Siu Bao, Hot Dog Buns (a childhood favorite), or Egg Tarts!

Chinese Bakery: All Recipes

Recipe for Wife Cakes (Lao Po Bing or Lou Po Beng)

Wife Cake (Lao Po Bing, 老婆饼)

Milk Bread Recipe

Milk Bread

Chinese flower hot dog buns on tray

Flower Hot Dog Buns

Lotus Mooncakes with Salted Egg Yolks, by thewoksoflife.com

Lotus Mooncakes with Salted Egg Yolks

Ube bun with a bite taken out of it

Ube Buns

Chinese Egg Tarts

Hong Kong Egg Tarts

Char Siu Bao, thewoksoflife.com

Chinese BBQ Pork Buns (Baked Char Siu Bao Recipe)

Bacon Scallion Milk Bread

Bacon Scallion Milk Bread

Chinese Sesame Balls

Sesame Balls

Baked Inside Out Hong Kong Coconut Buns

Inside-Out Hong Kong Coconut Buns

Homemade Lotus Seed Paste, thewoksoflife.com

How to Make Lotus Seed Paste

Old-Style Shanghai Bread, by thewoksoflife.com

Old-Style Shanghai Bread

Chinese Pineapple Buns with Roast Pork Filling, by thewoksoflife.com

Chinese Pineapple Buns with Roast Pork Filling

Sweet Red Bean Paste Recipe (In an Instant Pot), by thewoksoflife.com

Sweet Red Bean Paste Recipe (In an Instant Pot)

The Perfect Whole Wheat Mantou Recipe, by thewoksoflife.com

The Perfect Whole Wheat Mantou Recipe

Pumpkin Dinner Rolls, by thewoksoflife.com

Pumpkin Dinner Rolls

Chocolate Nutella Rolls, by thewoksoflife.com

Chocolate Nutella Rolls

Chinese Sausage Buns (Lop Cheung Bao), by thewoksoflife.com

Chinese Sausage Buns (Lop Cheung Bao)

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