In recent years, the western world has been hit with this coconut fad – cooking with coconut oil, using coconut sugar, drinking coconut milk and coconut water… eating anything with coconut in it is perceived as healthy. The over-priced organic and vegan stores seemingly treat coconut as the holy water of the fitspo god. Hashtag #coconut and oh, it must be healthy then.
So jumping right on this bandwagon, I tried little fried coconut pancakes at the food markets in Silom. I’m sure you get all the same oils and natural sugars that supposedly has so many health benefits, if you fry it and eat the coconut as is, right?
And hands down, one of the best market sweets I’ve had. Sooooooooooo gooooood.
It cost me 25 BHT (1 NZD) for 8 mini pancakes. I thought it would come with some sweet sources or sugar sprinkled on it, but it didn’t – and it definitely didn’t need to. Don’t know what the secret recipe was, but I’d be astonished if it was just shredded coconut, flour and egg. Some hints of condensed milk or cream came through, which made the pancakes sticky and gooey. The marriage of the crispy outside and the gooey inside was heavenly – texture really does matter just as much as taste!
Though I vowed not to have the same food from the same stand this month, I think I can be forgiven for having the same morning tea every now and again. It’s that good.
Ingredients: Coconut, egg, flour, some sort of dairy products.
Kinda like…: Pancakes with the texture of Cadbury coconut rough? I can’t explain, go try it.
Lost in Gustation 
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