Green onion pancakes

Right before my roommates and I left our apartment for a few days of break, I decided that I would use up all of the perishable foods in the refrigerator. It turns out, the only perishable foods were a block of tofu, eggs, and a bunch of green onions. What can you make from that?

After some soul-searching on youtube land, I decided that I would make green onion pancakes accompanied by a soup of tofu, tomato and eggs. The green onion pancakes seem difficult to make because they required rolling out the dough to a nice and thin consistency and fold in oil as if I am making a French pastry. I remember eating excellent, flaky, light, and onion flavored pancakes bought from the street vendors when I was little, but now I was attempting to make it at home with youtube as my only help. But my roommate cheered me on by saying, “You can do it. I’ll eat whatever you make.” So off I went.

The video that I saw requires a working knowledge of Chinese and the ability to withstand a lot of enthusiastic Chinese chattering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZPDa0wiqQ

But you can watch this very similar version without everything I have described above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OJbkqUvHxI

I can’t say that the whole process went effortlessly. I confess that I almost burnt down the house by leaving the pot on the stove with oil still in it. Unsure of what to do, I took the pot off and waited for the oil-lite fire to die down while frantically screaming my roommate’s name for help. After the fire died down, I used the “Abby Butcher” method of fanning smoke away from the fire alarm (which I learned as a freshman living on my own for the first time) to appease the ear-ringing sound.

I have completely ruined the pot, but my roommates were so kind that they simply laughed and thought that it was funny, given that I didn’t actually burn down the house. Then they told me that I should pour baking soda on a grease fire. So now I am going to research health and safety in kitchens during my leisure time.