Pancakes

I have been wanting pancakes.

Here in Malaysia pancakes are expensive and tiny. They're not the cheap things that we have in the States.

I loved going to a couple of different truck stops and eating the giant pancakes that filled the entire plate. One or two of those is enough to feed a family.

Here, though, you can pay 13-20 ringgit and get 2 TINY pancakes. We're talking smaller than 10cm (4 inches). That kind of money should get you a stack of pancakes.

I do not have a skillet, yet. I've been making everything with a soup pot and a wok.

I decided that enough is enough. I want pancakes, so I'll make them. I looked up a recipe, bought the ingredients and made pancakes this morning. I modified the recipe by adding a little sugar to the mix.

I used a wok to make the pancakes. The first pancake was a failure, a little burned on one side, a little under cooked on the other. After that I figured out that the best thing to do is pour in the batter, wait a few seconds, then swirl the wok slowly to move the batter out to the edges so that the entire thing can cook evenly. That did the trick.

So, this morning, for 4 ringgit or less, I made a stack of 7 pancakes. We don't have syrup, so I added a little bit of honey to 1 of my pancakes. The rest, because of the small amount of sugar I added, were fine as they were.

So, wokcakes it is from now on.