These towering souffle-style pancakes are light and lovely, yet satisfyingly eggy – but the 20-minute cooking time feels like foodie purgatory
Even in the increasingly filthy world of food porn, these fluffy pancake clouds seem especially X-rated. Perform a Google image search for “Japanese wobbly pancake” – not in the office, obviously; they’re strictly NSFW – and you will see what I mean. There they are, lolloping gently on top of each other, drizzled in syrup, dolloped with cream, and all the while teasing you that they might just float away before you get to taste them.
They certainly proved to be elusive. My first attempt to sample them was thwarted after Fuwa Fuwa– the only place in the UK that seems to sell them – ended its east London pop-up residency on the day I was planning to visit. Of course, I wasn’t sad enough to spend the next few months refreshing its Instagram feed every morning, drooling afresh at the pictures. No, it was pure coincidence that, as soon as Fuwa Fuwa opened again at a new central London base, I was knocking on the door with a similarly pancake-enthralled friend.
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