XUXU: Pork buns from an 1,800 year old Chinese recipe

Xuxu serve a delicious Pork Steam Bun or 'Baozi' that is said to have powerful healing qualities perfect for warming your wellbeing. This belief and the Pork Steam Bun recipe dates back almost 1,800 years when a Chinese military strategist Zhuge Liang created this delicious meal during an expedition. His army caught the plague. He invented the buns in the shape of a human head to offer as a sacrifice as well as to feed and cure the soldiers plague.

XuXu: Britomart, Auckland City

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