For the special birth-month of August for our country, Jollibean is selling maru pancakes that are black as tar, as bitumen in our driveways. It feels like the city of Japan, where it is a common sight for black cakes, health wizards which live for the ashes of bamboo.
Take a hard, great look at the nearest Jollibean stand around you. So mystical, so breath-stealing. So black. Yet just like any other maru (perfectly oval-shaped) pancake, arranged, (to be consumed), made, lying there.
Bamboo Charcoal Adzuki Red Bean (SGD 1.20)
There is only 1 left (at night){!} Gasp, so popular. Imagine few more stacked up together, surreal like sponges (black), lined with a good deal of white sesame seeds at the plateau top. The goodness and natural sweetness of adzuki beans, they were probably
P.S. There wasn't much of an adzuki bean paste. Jam, or natural water, seeping into the black pancake. A hearty combination of adzuki beans and white sesame seed; and for the last time now, bamboo charcoal tastes like the wheat/carbohydrate it clings on to, chewy, of the freshly-made obanyaki batter, unterrifying like a little child seen but not heard.
