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Poorman's Pancake
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Posted: 30th November 2005

This is a roadside snack called khanom tang taek in Thai. It can be translated as Poorman’s Pancake. It is not really a snack because of its size. Nor is it like any pancakes that we would come across in the West. But, I suppose it is a good snack for a person who is broke because you certainly get your money’s worth. It only costs about 50 cents. The batter of the pancake has a mixture of flour and eggs and is cooked in a large deep pan. The pancake is topped with shredded coconut, sugar and sesame seeds. As you can see in the picture below, some versions are coloured green!

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it does mean Poor Man Dessert. Tang is in a rising tone, hence meaning " a bucket" and TAng Taek is "a broken bucket" which is a Tahi idiom meaning "being broke (in financial sense)"
mshotze
In my opinion, i think the name of this dessert contains implied meaning. Thai prefer to name the dessert and food from the characteristic of the food so it is quite true that the name of "Khanom Tang Taek" represent the broken flour as Jogger mentioned. Also it is true that it implies about the poor in terms of the chep cost of the dessert, which poor people can afford it.

In sum, it may have 2 meaning - the characteristic of dessert and implied-meaning about poor pancake.

The latter meaning effects to Thai belief that some Thai people do not like to have Khanom Tang Taek because it seems to be unlucky for them in terms of financial status. No one want to be broke!
JOGGER
KANOM TANG means pancake

KANOM TANG NA TUNG
means PANCAKE WITH TOPPING

KANOM TANG TAK

means pancake with bursting face with all the bubble.

remember "KAI KAI KAI KAI?


who sells chicken eggs?

in this instance:

TANG does not meam SATANG (money)

but rather: crunchy flour, or rice of some sort.

you might want to start a blog of

TANG food, i.e.

KANOM TANG NA TUNG

KANOM TAN TAK

in this instant, TAK refers to the way the flour bursting into bubble.

you should try:

KHAO TANG NA TUNG

it's yummy

TANG could mean either:

crunchy flour or rice

or

could mean MONEY (SATANG)

broken flour (buble on the surface of the food)

is not same as someone being broke.
mshotze
the green color is from the juice of a screw pine of genus Pandanus (Bai Toey). Thai people prefer to use the juice in order to get green color and good smell. If you notice at the back seat of taxi, maybe you can find the bunch of the green leave of pandanos, which produce very good smell around the car. Actually, traditional Thai people often use some edible flower or leave to produce color on food such as the green pandoras leave as i mentioned above and Thai butterfly pea ("Un Chan" flower)to produce purple - blue color. Not only get food colr but also get healthy because of these plants are herbs.
oakmonster
Hmmmmmmmm...yummy nummy! :-9~~ I can live on the shredded coconut and the sugar/salt/sesame seeds mixture alone!
trangam
Looks so much like what we call Dosa.
James
Sounds great. Do you know of a recipe for khanom tang taek or do I need to wait for my next trip to Thailand?
Thanks
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