Indonesia is a country that consists of various cultures in it. These cultures merge into various aspects of people’s lives, such as food. Bakpao is a type of typical Chinese food, the word ‘bak’, which means meat in Hokkien, comes from the word ‘rou’ in Mandarin. Whereas the word ‘pao’ means a wrap made from flour dough. So, actually this naming comes from the recipe of the buns themselves.
Along with the times and culinary developments, the stuffing in buns isn’t just meat. Variety of filling buns ranging from chocolate, peanut butter, fruit jam, chicken meat, fish meat to beef as well as vegetables. The process of making buns is also in a healthy way, namely steamed.
Usually at the bottom of the buns will be given a paper mat. The paper that is generally used is baking paper. For use it is often sticky when steamed buns are removed from the parchment paper. Besides baking paper does not have a food grade coating. Therefore the process of using baking paper can be replaced with paper that has a silicone coating. Silicone paper / parchment paper in question is Steam Paper Seven or can also use Baking Paper Seven. Both are non-stick baking paper, but Steam Paper Seven has holes and has a round size of 12 cm that fits the size of a bun. Besides Baking Paper Seven can also be custom other sizes such as round size 20 cm, round 7 cm, round 22 cm which is suitable to be adjusted to the use you want.
