Across the parking lot from North Restaurant, I noticed a sign with the word waffle and instantly wanted to take a closer look! When it comes to dessert shops or cafes, I'm usually quite keen on spotting them out. Anyway, we had just finished dinner and the notion of dessert came up. So, we went to check it out and it was a Korean waffle place making the fish shaped waffle cakes. I believe the Korean term is Bungeoppang. Very similar to Taiyaki which is shaped like a fish as well but it seems like Taiyaki is thicker and uses regular pancake or waffle batter while traditional Bungeoppang uses a rice based batter.
It's a small place offering the fish shaped cakes, korean style pancakes (never had before), Korean iced dessert, and also savory snacks like dumplings. I definitely wanted to try a red bean fish waffle and was not disappointed!
The batter is crisp on the outside and slightly chewy on the inside, not too doughy and a nice amount of red bean filling was enclosed. It tasted like glutionous rice flour was used in the batter to make the waffle part (which I'm a fan of), but I'm not sure if it is mixed with other flours. I tried looking up recipes and most recipes use regular wheat flour for the bungeoppang which I guess is because the Japanese Taiyaki version is more well known. Here is a post that notes it traditionally uses rice flour but provides a recipe using cake flour. If anyone is interested, the H-Mart Housewares Store in Toronto has stocked the fish shaped pan before.
Best eaten warm, they are very delicious with just the right amount of sweetness and chew. You could definitely just finish one while only walking a few steps out the door!
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| The list of teas sounds like a good variety, interesting that they have toasted rice. |
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| There is very little seating but the shaved ice would be great on hot summer days! |
They also advertised nutella filled waffle cakes but had already run out. Nutella seems to be the craze these days. Next time I guess.
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