Bao Buns With Crispy Chicken and Pickled Carrots

I do love a good Chinese dish, and as I had some bao buns in the freezer that I wanted to use, I ended up making bao buns with crispy chicken and pickled carrots for dinner today.

I found the recipe in a Norwegian cookbook called "Alt Asiatisk 2" by Elisabeth Le and I found it fairly easy, especially as I had both the bao buns and the sriracha mayo already, so I didn't need to make those things. Making the crispy chicken and pickled carrots were fairly easy in my opinion and the directions made it even more easy.

Fair enough, I doubt I would last long working in a kitchen based on presentation and such, but the food was overall good I think. I also made use of some lettuce from my garden, just to have some more veggies.

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