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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.

This is a work in progress. Don't see your favorite International Pancake represented here? We'd love to know about it.

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Ten Yen Waffle

Photo: matt kirkland

Inside the giant discount store Don Quijote in Shibuya, there's a kiosk in the back that makes these novelty waffles shaped like giant ten yen coins. They're standard-issue waffle batter but with a big block of mozzarella cheese inside.

It's sold on a popsicle stick (!) or in a cardboard sleeve. Variations have included multicolored cheese (with food coloring) for special events.

The waffle kiosk

Illustration of stretchy mozzarella waffle

Name_	Ten Yen Waffle
Origin_	🇯🇵 Japan
Morphology_	⊞ mold
Flavor_	savory
Filling_	mozzarella cheese
Topping_	none
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