Asian Pasties

For those of you who have never lived or been to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, you’re missing out (however, if you stay there for 8 years in a row you may be a little too crazy for me) and you probably don’t know what a pasty is. It is bread filled with meat, potatoes, carrots, spices, and other stuff that varies from pasty to pasty. It is actually quite good and very filling. The copper miners used to pack them as a lunch they could easily eat while working in the mines. Anyway, for all you Yoopers and ex-Yoopers, you will appreciate my find of the Asian “pasty.” It is actually a meat filled “pau.” You can get pau, a Chinese steamed bread made from rice flour, with many different things in it (my favorite being kaya – a coconutty and sweet spread), but upon my enjoyment of eating the meat version I immediately thought of the pasty. Yum yum! Now even those from the UP can come and enjoy home cooking! (Almost)