Bobing or Mandarin Pancakes

These pancakes and the Peking Duck are inseparable. Even though nowadays one can always buy frozen packets of them in Chinese supermarkets, which are perfectly round and thin, home-made ones as in this recipe are much superior in texture – what pancakes are all about – so that it is worth one’s while to take the trouble to make them. If two people work together for steps 6–8, one doing the rolling and the other doing the frying, the task will be much easier, not to mention more fun. As the