Dan Bing (Taiwanese Breakfast Crepes)

This recipe is from my debut cookbook First Generation, available wherever books are sold! This is my grandma's version of dan bing, a traditional Taiwanese breakfast dish that she made for me in the mornings. It’s a thin pancake almost like a crepe, full of egg flavor and springy in texture, with crisp, oily edges that I fondly savor. This dish always transported me to Taipei, even though I couldn’t remember what it was like there. I loved hearing about Taipei’s breakfast shops, their dan bing and soy milk feeding bustling lines of workers looking for a comforting breakfast to start the day. Dan bing is the simplest dish in this entire book, requiring just a quick whisk of flour, water, and egg before it’s cooked on a skillet. It’s delicious on its own, but for a heartier dish, you can use the bing as a wrapper for any combination of your favorite ingredients, from deli meats and lettuce to stewed meats and pickles.