Char Siu So (叉烧酥) — BBQ Pork Flaky Pastry
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Char siu so (叉烧酥, BBQ pork flaky pastry) is a dim sum preparation of a laminated, flaky Chinese pastry shell filled with diced char siu (Cantonese barbecue pork). The pastry is made using a Chinese laminated pastry technique (水油皮, shui you pi, water-oil pastry) — a water-based outer dough laminated with a shortening-based inner dough — that produces a distinctive honeycomb-like flaky structure when baked. The exterior of a well-made char siu so is snow-white, delicate, and shatteringly thin; each layer peeling away from the others as the pastry is eaten.
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