What sort of savouries are you talking about? BBQ pork mixture? Ground chicken? Etc?
The rolls are basically a white wheat flour dough (leavened with either yeast or chemically). The pink colouring is produced by pink or red food dye. Usually, buns can be shaped to look like various things (such as in your case a porcupine) using scissors and various strategic cuts along the dough to create a raised effect.
These buns can usually be found in Cantonese-style dim sum restaurants (although most places won't have animal-shaped buns) and when I get home I can post a recipe from a Chinese Bun making book (although I fervently dislike having to read and translate simplified Chinese since my regular Chinese is poor enough as it is). |