Only knew about the existence of 555 Pancakes when we made our visit to Taman Jurong Food Centre for another stall the other day — was snooping around the food centre looking for something to snack around when we found this stall hiding around a corner at the second level of the hawker centre. These folks are pretty recognisable with their yellow signboard that features cartoonish illustrations of Min Jiang Kueh and a girl; one can also notice children drawings that is being pasted on the wall of the stall as well. One can also notice that the stall does have a display case that is stocked up with the various pancakes that they have to offer for the day — all pancakes being served up at 555 Pancakes being the typical Min Jiang Kueh that one would be able to find at other establishments serving up similar offerings at hawker centres / coffeeshops / food courts. What really drew the attention for us when we were passing by the stall is how 555 Pancakes does serve up rather interesting flavours of pancakes that not only appeal to those whom like more conventional ones, but also more modern ones that would also attract the younger crowds — think flavours like Black Sesame, Green Tea and Yam that are flavours which one is more likely to find at trendier establishments.

Considering how we were pretty curious about how a number of their flavours would turn out to be, we found ourselves going for the Yam Pancake — all Min Jiang Kueh offerings at 555 Pancakes only comes with a standard batter which would be the usual original batter that one would expect from the typical Min Jiang Kueh. What is interesting to note about the Min Jiang Kueh at 555 Pancakes is how the batter does seem to be deceptively thin, though is actually pretty dense and thick and is rather comparable to that of what some establishments like Munchi Pancakes serves up — but also not quite jelak with much more bounciness especially when it is still warm. The pieces of the Min Jiang Kueh that are being sliced out from the edges alls do come with surprisingly crisp ends that aren’t soft nor limp — still carrying the same crisp texture that it is intended to have. The Yam Pancake comes with a yam
paste filling that one would typically expect out of an Orh Nee; the earthy notes of yam is especially prominent whilst the Yam paste filling itself wasn’t overly sweetened — the filling also coming with a slight graininess like how one would expect it to be.

For the Green Tea Pancake, we did wish that they could pay more attention to detail when slicing the pancakes; the Green Tea Pancake does come with additional layers of red bean and yam filling stained on the knife presumably from other slices that they had sliced prior. The Green Tea filling itself does exude a strong note of the bitter undertones of the tea; all matched with a slight hint of earthiness that suggests the use of red bean in the paste filling as the base. Despite trying only a handful of their more inventive pancake flavours that they have to offer, we did find that 555 Pancakes does serve up pancakes that hits the spot for us — simple and comforting without being overly pretentious, yet with a choice of flavours that are slightly more adventurous that provides patrons with interesting options from the usual. What really gets us here is the execution of the Min Jiang Kueh itself which is pretty much with commending — the only qualm would be how these folks are situated a little far out in the West that requires a little bit of an effort to get to for those whom do not reside in the area. Prices of the Min Jiang Kueh are quite affordable, being in the range of $0.90 to $1.10 a slice depending on the flavour opted — a stall which we will be looking forward to visiting when we find ourselves back at Taman Jurong Food Centre again.