Batter Day Pancake 麵煎粿

Was scrolling around the phone to only find out a rather interesting sounding establishment named Batter Day Pancake that seemed to have opened its doors relatively recently in the Geylang Bahru neighbourhood. Turns out, Batter Day Pancake had recently opened its doors within the 68 Choices Eating House coffee shop that is located at the foot of Blk 68 Geylang Bahru; other stalls that one can find within the same coffeeshop will include that of Ah Ong Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee, as well as 小成手工包点 Xiao Chen Handmade Pau. Batter Day Pancake should not be too difficult to locate within the coffeeshop; the stall it occupies is situated somewhere in the middle of the whole coffeeshop, while its modern signboard featuring a mix of white and red elements with a caricature of a boy eating a pancake is a stark comparison to the other stalls within the same coffeeshop. As one might have expected, Batter Day Pancake is a stall that specialises in its pancake offerings — the stall is a what one would typically recognise as a stall serving up Min Jiang Kueh; offering patrons with only four different variants of flavours, the flavours that Batter Day Pancake serves up would include the Peanut, Red Bean, Coconut and Peanut + Peanut Butter which are pretty much very traditional flavours that one can find at the other stalls serving up such pancakes.

Whilst the go-to for most folks at Min Jiang Kueh stalls would typically be the Peanut or the Peanut + Peanut Butter flavours, we went with the Red Bean since that is the flavour that we tend to go for instead. The way that the pancakes are done and displayed at the counter does remind us of another similar establishment named Bu Bu Gao Sheng Pancake that has expanded to quite a number of locations around the island — the pancakes are prepared ahead of time, and are packed into plastic bags to be directly picked up when one makes an order for it. We were served with a piece of the Red Bean Pancake that seems to be a corner piece; rather obviously so considering the crusty edge that came along on the ends. One thing with noting is how the pancakes at Batter Day Pancake does not come across as being too thick as compared to the likes of Munchi Pancake’s rendition — these do seem to be better made as a tea-time snack option without feeling too substantial. The batter of the pancake also retains a chewy consistency with a distinct fragrance, though the ends does seemed to have lost some of its crispness given how these were already prepared ahead of time and wasn’t quite as warm as they would be if they were freshly made. There is not much to shout about when it comes to the red bean paste, though if anything, this was still definitely suitably sweet to say the least. The Cheese Pancake on the other hand was nothing much to shout about, though there is always that savouriness of processed cheese that somehow simply works with the Min Jiang Kueh for us that pretty much hits our soft spot. Prices of the Min Jiang Kueh per slice at Batter Day Pancake ranges from $1.20 to $1.40; the highest-priced ones being the Coconut and Peanut + Peanut Butter pancakes. A decent Min Jiang Kueh to go for for those reside around the vicinity of Geylang Bahru.