Bo Lo Baos--butter guilt (kind of).

Brought my cousin to the airport last Saturday and ate at a HK eatery called Xin Wang beforehand for brunch. I honestly love HK breakfasts, and have fond memories of my trips to HK where breakfasts consisted of dimsum or relatively cheap breakfast sets (with free drinks like milk tea, milk coffee, and my favorite--Horlicks). In any case--it was only here in Shanghai that my aunt introduced myself and my sister to an extremely good, yet extremely bad for you food--Bo lo baos, which literally mean "pineapple buns." The funny thing about these buns is that they have no pineapple in them at all--instead, they are called such because of the crisp custard topping that supposedly makes the buns look like pineapples.
Here's how you eat them: they are served to you fresh and hot, and you take a square of butter and put in in the middle of the bread and take a bite. Of course, since the bread is hot, the butter melts as you eat it. Each bite is the wonderfulness of butter personified--creamy, melting and slightly-salty butter that goes so nicely with the hot, soft bread and the crumbly-sweet custard topping. Mmmmm. Who cares about calories when you are eating these?

Was so sad that this place had no Horlicks though (that would've been perfection). :/