Bread-Bakers v108.n026.5

Jeanette,

What you describe made me think of monkey bread...except monkey bread 
usually is baked, and can be made with either biscuit or yeast doughs.

The Chinese have a steamed breads called mantou and baozi.  I don't 
know  that this will help you in your search, but they are steamed 
bread techniques, for whatever that may be worth.

Joe