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 on a flat surface

 


 

The dough is rolled flat and then added to a pan or steamer.

Not poured onto a flat surface like a real pancake.

 

 

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