Pineapple bun

I talked about the Hong Kong tea restaurant last time. And more information about that here. People live in Hong Kong always say, “if you go to HK-style tea restaurant everyday for 3 meals, you are able to have different kinds of foods.”. It is because we can find more than hundred kinds of food there.

I want to introduce is Pineapple bun. it is one of my favorite western buns. The top of the pineapple bun is crunchy and is quite sweet compared with the bread underneath. The original name of pineapple bun is “Russian bun.” The name of pineapple bun is because after baked the bun, the surface turned golden yellow, and become crunchy which looks like a surface of a real pineapple. Thus, a pineapple bun certainly does not have pineapple as the ingredient. And the thing we need to know is HK-style tea restaurant served bread and they bake the bread by themselves.


Most of the HK tea dining room offer an item called “buttered pineapple bun”, which is a pineapple bun with a piece of butter stuffed inside. Typically, the pastry would be brought hot from the oven to the customers. The best eating method is a fresh pineapple bun served with a COLD butter. Thus, butter would dissolve by the pineapple bun of the heat. A whole bun would full of the taste of butter. The only different between pineapple bun and buttered pineapple bun is a butter served inside.


Pineapple bun and buttered pineapple bun contained too much fat and cholesterol. They are not good to our health. However, have it rarely is a good enjoy!

There is a video that show how to make a pineapple bun. Let's try it.