Chinese Pineapple Bun – Fully Bakery
Fully Bakery
82-24 45th Avenue
Elmhurst, NY
(718) 446-9058
My dear co-worker Tina Y. has been teasing me for days about the best pineapple buns ever, and all located in Elmhurst. She continues to tease me by giving me two teaser buns instead of the best one that she’s been praising about. She bought me this packaged bun from Fully Bakery and tells me that she has been going there for years and have never been disappointed. Plus, that this pineapple bun is sweeter than any that she has tried. I will be the judge of that!
Anyways, I figure that I would do a photo post on it and share my experience with you!
Packaged Pineapple Bun from Fully Bakery
Pineapple Bun (bor lor bao) & Pineapple Comparison (Why’s it called Pineapple Bun?)
So you want to know why Pineapple Buns are called such? It’s a simple explanation but it seems sometimes it is lost in translation.
Pineapple Bun (bor lor bao)
Pineapple (courtesy of timesonline.typepad.com)
The original way of creating the crust of the Pineapple Bun is to make diagonal cuts across the surface. After baking, it looks like the surface of a Pineapple. This method is sometimes lost due to individual bakeries. The bakers probably don’t bother and slap the crust on since most bakeries make it so cheap (under $1 usually) and lots of it, where as high end bakeries will charge 3-5x more for it.
