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International Pancakes

Just about every culinary culture has pancakes. You know that chain pancake place over by the highway? They claim to be 'International', but they only offer us French Toast and Belgian Waffles. What other international delights are they keeping from us?

Look. Big Pancake Chain doesn't want you to know about the culinary delights of other nations. But it doesn't matter what they think: we're a global village now, and we can open our borders to pancakes from all nations.

Do you smell that? It's time to wake up: International Pancakes are everywhere.

And breakfast is served.

We define pancake as any kind of doughy treat that's cooked by applying liquid batter to a hot pan. This can include traditional pancakes, crepes, waffles, and creations as yet undreamt-of.

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Egg Waffle

Egg Waffle

Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cherrylet/8884940132/

Egg waffles are a Hong Kong street food staple; an eggy batter poured into a hot two-sided waffle mold with vaguely spheric voids. The resultant waffle is pulled from the iron hot, then set to cool into a curved shape.

Served hot with paper wrapping. The egg waffle can be pulled apart by hand, to be eaten bubble-by-bubble. Some vendors flavor the batter; fruit, chocolate, and matcha flavors are common.

In later years this has been imported to the west as a variant on an ice cream waffle cone, sometimes found at boba shops.

Egg Waffles ready to serve

Name_	Egg Waffle
Origin_	🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Morphology_	⊞ mold
Flavor_	sweet
Filling_	none, ice cream
Topping_	various
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