Aunty Oats Pancake📍Old Airport Road • Min Jiang Kueh Recommended by Michelin Guide 麦煎粿

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Min jiang kueh is a popular traditional snack in Singapore (and around Southeast Asia). Aunty Oats Pancake is the first and only min jiang kueh stall recommended by the Michelin guide.

Aunty Oats Pancake is located at Old Airport Road Food Centre stall #01-110. The Gan siblings have been running this stall for over two decades.

The pancakes are all freshly made at the little stall.

Aunty makes them in the background with flat iron griddles while uncle cuts them up into tiny pieces which sell at SGD$1.30 each.

It's a large flour and leavener batter pan fried pancake topped with crushed peanut and sugar, then folded over.

Sold by pieces cut from the whole pancake.

The pieces at the edges have a tissue thin, crispy fringe.

Aunty Oats' pancake is relatively thin. Some stalls have pancakes twice as thick.

Aunty Oats' pancake was generously and evenly filled.

The well browned pancake was sweet, soft tender, spongy with a subtle chewiness. The outside of the pancake was pockmarked with many tiny pits (left by air bubbles). The crushed peanuts were nutty, and the filling was not overly sugary.

Besides the traditional crushed peanut, there's also red bean paste and shredded coconut pulp fillings at Aunty Oats Pancake.

Min jiang kueh 面煎粿 is believed to have its roots in the northern Chinese scallion filled pancake. When the dish arrived in Fujian province in the 1800s, scallion was substituted with crushed peanut and sugar (which were abundant in south China). When Fujian labourers brought the pancake to Nanyang (Malay Archipelago), grated coconut became one of the fillings.

Contemporary versions now have cheese, chocolate, even colourful candy sprinkles and other modern fillings. Min jiang kueh is enjoying a renaissance with traditional and modern fillings catching the favour and imagination of the new generation (which is critical for the survival of any heritage dish).