edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.
Now try to eat a single Japanese pancake. I’m a 6’3" 230lb man and failed to finish the large one. The shop I went to had 3 sizes, something along the lines of a 4", 7", and 10" diameter pancakes. Japanese pancakes are generally at least 2" thick.
Yeah that’s just a fucking cake at that point
I love that everyone comments about how the USA has too much sugar, but nearly every time I’ve watched a Japanese recipe they add just silly amounts of sugar to things.
Hell I watched someone add sugar to a scrambled egg.
Occasionally you see chirashi sushi boxes in supermarkets with pink sugar crystals sprinkled on them. I can’t for the life of me imagine who wants sugar on fish, but they persist in selling them
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Oh gods, when I was in japan on business that was the worst. I just wanted something nutritious and familiar for breakfast after a few days and so I tried the eggs at the hotel and they were so sweet. I imagine that’s how Europeans feel about our bread (I know I hate how sweet it is)
In Colombia, one of their traditional beverages is literally just hot water with a whole lot of panela (unrefined sugar) in it.
Cake, huh? Maybe some kind of cake that you cook in a pan? Some kind of pan-cake?
But it’s cooked in a pan rather than baked in an oven, so we need some way of differentiating between the two. So we’ll have cakes and bakecakes.