baozi

Noun

baozi (plural baozi or baozis)

1. A Chinese steamed stuffed bun.
   • We drew into a halt: a few huts, a siding, some heaps of abandoned coal. Ragged children were picking them over but they turned and ran for the sleeper coach windows, holding up chipped and coal-blackened bowls for fragments of yesterday’s bread and baozis, pork-filled dumplings.1987, Sarah Lloyd, Chinese Characters: A Journey through China, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 222
   • Some wonderful baozis (steamed white bread) filled with either vegetables, pork, or black bean paste are sold on the streets of most cities and towns scattered throughout the region.1998, “Pleasures and Pastimes”, in Nancy van Itallie et al., editors, Fodor’s China, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 7, column 2

   Synonyms:

   bao, pao, pau