Night
Look what Jollibean has done. Yam maru pancake. Sweet potato maru pancake. It seems to have slipped into the health and vegetarian notions of Taiwan, an open vista of the wide whole sky, where it is closer to heaven, and accessible to pristine spring water. Along the same mystic realms of high altitude tea picking; the Taiwanese mountain buns, besides spinach, egg, strawberry, milk, plain, brown sugar, corn, multi grain, yam, and sweet potato.
Yam Maru Pancake (SGD )
Is it a creamy grey what it takes after the yam, or fleshy white? What would the yam cultivated of Jollibean be? It's violet alright. Why are yams purple? It would be the phenolic compounds in the nutritionally dense starches. Mystery revealed on its light purple corms, (what we lawfully render yam to be), or why the linings of its flesh oscillate from the suffused ivory to brownish black to pan-pink.
You wielding your purple yam as trophy vegetable. The yam here is minced according to the directions of a maru pancake, as with its red bean, green bean or green tea mash, or compote of the cheese or cherry, hand made marmalade. The yam maru is silky sweet and churns a little in the middle of your resilient and chewy pancake/imagawayaki.
P.S. Yam and sweet potato. Pastes combining the specialities that they have cultivated. Predominance of the colours pinks, purples, browns, whites and greens. Once considered a peasant's consumption, cheap and filling, the root's significance cannot be overstated now, relished by both the rich and poor. The rich
