Which Southeast Asian pastry is a small pie filled with curry?

Which Southeast Asian pastry is a small pie filled with curry? Curry puff.

A curry puff is a small Southeast Asian turnover filled with thick curry, often containing chicken and potatoes, inside a fried or baked pastry shell. The filling is deliberately quite dry so it does not leak through the dough. In Malaysia it is commonly called karipap; related versions appear across Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, and India.

Curry puffs reflect the region’s layered culinary history. Their origins are uncertain, but food historians commonly discuss influences from South Asian samosas, Portuguese empanadas, and the British Cornish pasty. The pastry may be smooth and crisp or made with layered dough that produces flaky spirals. Fillings can include sardines, egg, vegetables, onions, or sweet ingredients such as yam.

Regional names are not always exact synonyms. In Indonesia, pastel may contain curry-like filling but does not necessarily use curry powder. In Malaysia, epok-epok can refer to related Malay-style pastries, including versions with egg or sardines. Singaporean curry puffs are sold in bakeries, hawker centres, and pasar malam markets.