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?

Cook until firm

 


 

The pancakes are cooked until firm. Both meet this criteria.

 

 

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