| Chinese restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area | | | | Convenience stores rarely very provide benches. |
| and around the world offer pork buns. Pork and other | | | | Japan has adopted and adapted this style of bun. |
| ingredients are cooked, stuffed inside a bun, and | | | | When you are hungry, biting into a hot bun on a cold |
| steamed. You can find pork buns ranging from fast | | | | winter day is one of the small pleasures in life. While |
| food buns at little stands on the street to the ecstasy | | | | you can find such buns sold at street stands and in |
| of exquisite dim sum restaurants like Yank Sing in San | | | | restaurants, and frozen in supermarkets, many people |
| Francisco. | | | | get their buns at convenience stores such as |
| When I am in San Francisco, walking down Market | | | | Seven-Eleven, Lawson, Family Mart, Save On, Circle K |
| Street or people-watching on Union Square, I will buy a | | | | Sunkus and Ministop. Some ingredients look familiar and |
| soft pretzel to eat. In Japan, I will stop my car at a | | | | some do not. The most unfamiliar ingredient to |
| convenience store, probably one of Japan's | | | | Americans may be an, which is a sweet bean paste |
| approximately 12,000 Seven-Elevens, and buy a bun. | | | | known by a variety of names. We looked at |
| Like at a drive-in, most people eat in the car. | | | | convenience store websites to see their bun menus. |