Color coding of steamed buns

[yosithezet]

Whether in a convenience store or the local hawker center, the steamed buns have a drop of color which helps tell them apart. Is this standardized? Anyone know of a list of the variations?

[Sergei82]

How do you standardize it? If you want a green, orange or blue one, you can just buy food coloring in a supermarket.

[nakatago]

Whether in a convenience store or the local hawker center, the steamed buns have a drop of color which helps tell them apart. Is this standardized? Anyone know of a list of the variations?

The side of the steamer would usually have a pictorial key to decoding which bun is which.

[therat]

Red dot is pork meat bao
green dot is vegetable bao
orange dot is curry bao

Bao that is very big in size is meat bao
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[yosithezet]

Red dot is pork meat bao
green dot is vegetable bao
orange dot is curry bao

Bao that is very big is size is meat bao

Thanks. Are there other colors or is this the standard?

[therat]

standard in Singapore.

I think JB also the same thing.

I forget that is a yam bao
Yam bao , the skin is like yam colour.

basically very easy, the colour is represent the ingredient.

Red paste bag - the top is round. No colour.

But pork bao in Hong Kong dim sum look totally different, and they was call as cha siu bao
and it look like this
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[sundaymorningstaple]

cha siu pau is the same as Char Siew pau in Singapore. Basically it's a BBQ'd pork pau. and had a red dot normally on the top.

Big pau is also pork but just steamed pork. These are much larger than all the rest of the pau.

Ba Pau ç”