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Siopao (Tagalog pronunciation:), is a Philippine steamed bun with various fillings. It is the indigenized version of the Fujianese baozi , introduced to the Philippines by Hokkien immigrants during the Spanish colonial period .
Ma Mon Luk (simplified Chinese: 马文禄; traditional Chinese: 馬文祿 Cantonese Yale: Máh Màhn-luhk), [1] was a Chinese immigrant best known in the Philippines for his eponymous restaurant, and for being the popularizer and alleged creator of mami (a noodle soup) and popularizer of siopao (a steamed bun based on the cha siu bao).
Siopao: Steamed filled bun. Common versions are asado, shredded meat in a sweet sauce similar to a Chinese barbecued pork filling, and bola-bola, a packed ground pork filling. Tokneneng and Kwek kwek: A tempura-like Filipino street food of duck or quail eggs covered in an orange-dyed batter and then deep-fried.
A common variant of the siopao, the siopao asado, is derived from the char siu bao and has a filling which uses similar ingredients to char siu. It differs in that the Filipino asado is a braised dish, not grilled, and is more similar in cooking style to the Hokkien tau yu bak (Chinese: 豆油 肉; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāu-iû bah).
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Siopao: 燒包 sio-pau: Filipino/Tagalog: siyopaw: steamed, filled with either chicken, pork, shrimp or salted egg: Zhimabao: 芝麻包 zhīmabāo: steamed, filled with a black sesame paste Yacaibao: 芽菜包 Yácàibāo: steamed, filled with a type of pickle, spices and possibly other vegetables or meat, common in Sichuan, China Bah-pau ...
Siopao – Philippine steamed bun; Songpyeon – Traditional Korean rice cakes with a sweet filling; Soon kueh – Shredded bamboo shoots, turnips and small dried shrimps wrapped in rice-tapioca flour skin; Sorrentinos – Pasta stuffed with filling
Filipino cuisine is influenced principally by China and Spain have been integrated with pre-colonial indigenous Filipino cooking practices. [1]In the Philippines, trade with China started in the 11th century, as documents show, but undocumented trade may have started as many as two centuries earlier.