Breakfast of Bread
I had my usual breakfast of bread today. The bread is pancake-shaped, and cooked against the sides of a oven fashioned from a steel drum. The oven is, of course, heated by coal.
There are two varieties... sweet and, well, not. Being an American, I go for the sweet type, which has a couple of tablespoons of sugar put into the dough.
I usually get two, and the couple who operate the stand most often get the pancakes ready for me as soon as they see me approach. The price for this morning goodness? two rmb.
Here's a picture of the stand and the couple who operate it:
And, here's a close-up of the oven:
They are Nang 馕. Yes, exactly the same name as Indians call their bread and almost exactly the same thing too. I guessed that they came over China via the west from India. The salty ones, if made well, have grains of salt and a hint of green onion aroma. They are heavenly when just made.
Posted by Sin-Yaw Wang on April 27, 2008 at 07:13 AM HKT #