Mantou (Chinese: 饅頭, also called Chinese Steamed Bun) is a most common Taiwanese breakfast. Every day I steams 3 mantous and 3 cups of soy milk for my family. Why we called it mantou? A popular Chinese legend relates that the name mantou(饅頭) actually originated from the homophonous word mántóu(蠻頭), which literally means "barbarian's head". The legend was set in the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE) when Zhuge Liang, the Chancellor of the state of Shu Han, led the Shu army on a campaign against Nanman forces in the southern lands of Shu, which correspond to roughly present-day Yunnan, China, and northern Myanmar. After subduing the Nanman king Meng Huo, Zhuge Liang led the army back to Shu, but met a swift-flowing river which defied all attempts to cross it. A barbarian lord informed him that in olden days, the barbarians would sacrifice 49 men and throw their heads into the river to appease the river deity and allow them to cross. As Zhuge Liang did not want to cause any