Chinese pancakes at 99 Ranch Market.mov

These pancakes, filled with either red bean paste or custard, show up at 99 Ranch only for Chinese New Years. Here's how they're made.

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Howto & Style

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• Chinese New Year
• pancakes
• 99 Ranch Market
• red bean paste
• custard

[milvipes]

今川燒 (Imagawayaki): It is indeed Japanese in origin, not Chinese.

[sdterp]

Wheel cakes 車輪餅...and I've seen them made there many times (usually on weekends). 

[rottenzombie27]

@milvipes

it says filled with red bean paste or custard. There is no doubt that red bean paste is a Chinese food. People probably just thought of the idea of putting in custard after contact with the British.

[milvipes]

@rottenzombie27 Custard is of British origin, so it's either 1)post-Meiji Japan 2)British Hong Kong.

[rottenzombie27]

@milvipes

I doubt it. A lot of Japanese foods were heavily influenced by Chinese anyways.

[milvipes]

I know I'll probably piss off a bunch of Chinese ultranationalists, but that thing is endemic Taiwanese, with mostly Japanese influence.

[BerglundG]

Why America rocks! Where else can you have one of these pancake things and then go across the street and get a kick-ass burrito. Praise God!

[jamesto447]

it's not only on new years. they do it a couple times a week. I love getting it, so good :D