What is not a pancake?

Lets do the pancake test on the Chinese dish Peking duck. This is very popular around the world. It is served wrapped in po-ping often translated as pancakes. They are very thin and used to hold the filling together but are they really pancakes?

Pour as a batter

 

 

 

  


Remember there are four things that a pancake must be:

  1.  It must be starch based
  2. Pour as a battercross
  3. Cook on a flat surface
  4. Cook until firm.

The Chinese pancakes are actually a thin rolled flat breads and not pancakes.