pineapple bun

English

Noun

pineapple bun (plural pineapple buns)

1. A sweet bun, mainly popular in Hong Kong and Macau, with a crunchy sugary topping that has a checkered pattern resembling the epicarp of a pineapple.

Translations

sweet bun

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿包／菠萝包 (bo¹ lo⁴ baau¹)

  Mandarin: 菠蘿包／菠萝包 (bōluóbāo)

• Finnish: ananaspulla
• Japanese: 菠蘿包 (ポーローパーウ, pōrōpāu)
• Korean: 보로바우 (borobau), 파인애플빵 (painaepeulppang)