Pork Floss and Seaweed Pull-Apart Rolls
These pillowy, savory buns come from the tantalizing pages of Kristina Cho’s Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries, a delicious homage to Chinese bakeries and their iconic confections. The buns get their ultrasoft pull-apart texture from tangzhong, a cooked paste of milk and flour incorporated into the dough that keeps the baked buns moist. They’re filled with pork floss (also known as pork sung), sweet and salty wisps of dried pork that resemble cotton candy and melt in the mouth. The combination of pork floss, mayo, and dried seaweed is popular in Chinese bakeries,...