"Tasty Mantou"

Mantou is a Chinese bread typically eaten northern part of china. People usually eat it in breakfast with tea or soya milk.

Montou made with milled wheat flour, water and some other special seeds. The size is range from 4cm to over 15 cm soft, fluffy and tasty.

Chinese mantou is known in the south but people rarely cook them at home they are often served as street food or in the restaurants.
They are often sold pre-cooked in the frozen section in supermarkets ready for preparation by steaming or heating in the microwave.

Qiujin 32, lives in London and she says that she can’t cook Mantou at home but she can buy it from Chinese stores. “I love mantou, normally we eat it with noodles”. she said.

In Chinese the name Mantou means “barbarian’s head. The legends arise from Zhuge Liang chief minister of the Shu State during the Three Kingdoms Period. He goes to attack the cave- dwelling Southern Man who was attacked his state before .He came to the bank of the Lushui River at the head of a big army. Someone told him that the river was poi­sonous and treacherous and that human lives would be lost in crossing unless the tyrannical River god was appeased. The man said that the way to do this was to offer him mantou (heads of the captured barbarians) as human sacrifices. Zhuge Liang was a kind-hearted man, so he ordered his army to use "heads" (tou) made of dough instead of real human ones, to save lives.

By Sadia Hasanzada