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Originally Posted by mo_bettah
I don't get it, why can't they make em here (vancouver) like they do in HK? Is it the flour?
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Not all places have great buns here. 90% of the population goes to the chain bakeries - St Honore, Maxims, Tai Pan, Kee Wah, etc. They all suck, for the most part. They use shitty ingredients (shortening, margarine, etc) and aren't as fresh (they make them at one location and ship them out to the stores.
You have to find the restaurants that do their own baking, and use proper ingredients to get good buns like this. The one I mentioned was great. There is also this little 'hole in the wall' place in Kwun Tong we go to. The guy bakes all day with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and his big fat pregnant looking belly hanging out. But he makes great buns, and they are cheap ($5 HKD for any 3 buns - that's about $0.75 CAD).
Stay away from the shiny looking places that are packed with 9-to-5ers during rush hour trying to spike their blood sugar to be able to make the trip home. Find a local bakery, and you will get good buns.
As far as Richmond goes, IIRC, Kam Do was always good (at least for their lo por bang) and there was another in that strip mall between aberdeen and parker place that was good (their cocktail buns were great).