Char Hung Susan #67

For those of you who live on Oahu, you’ll know that one of the best places to buy manapua (char siu bao) is from Char Hung Sut located in China town.  Now I’m not claiming to make manapua even half as good as Char Hung Sut does, but I wanted to mention them because, hands down, they are my favorite place!   In addition to the manapua, some of my favorites are the half moon, pork hash, mai tai su, and the chow fun. Yummy!!!

I made these mini baked and steamed manapuas as practice for the second bento class that I am teaching this weekend.  I have the recipe for baked version in my new cookbook but I have never steamed them before and was curious as to how they would turn out.  I thought the steamed version turned out well and Paige really loved them.  The manapuas are about 2 inches across and I packed them in these little white boxes- which I thought resembled the boxes that manapua is typically packed in.  To make the piggies, I used a clean rubber stamp with a little bit of red food coloring.

It would probably make a good party favor!