Colorful Red Bean Pancakes！Colorful Crust + Dual Fillings – Satisfy 3 Flavors in One Bite

▲ Colorful red bean pancakes from Dou Chuzi. (Photo／Cropped fromDou Chuzi Red Bean Pancake Exclusive Fan Page, same below)

Tourism Center / Comprehensive Report

Red bean pancakes can be colorful too！The red bean pancakes from “Dou Chuzi” in Wandan Township, Pingtung, feature crusts that go beyond the traditional single-tone wheat flour mix. Now available in black, red, green, yellow, and brown, paired with creative fillings such as red beans, sesame, soy milk, butter, and taro. Not only are they vibrant in color, but their unique flavors also attract many customers willing to queue up for freshly baked pancakes.

▲ The specially made red bean pancakes offer two fillings—for example, the red bean & soy milk version has red bean (in the crust) and a half-red bean, half-butter filling (inside).

Red beans from Wandan Township are widely known, and with the addition of selling red bean pancakes, the owner Wang Huiling named her shop “Dou Chuzi.” She married from Kaohsiung to Wandan, where her husband’s family used to grow red beans. Aside from helping out with farm work, she also worked outside and spent her free time learning plant dyeing in community groups. Wang Huiling said she initially just did it as a hobby, using natural plant pigments to dye clothes and accessories. Once, while attending a workshop at the Nantou Craft Research Institute, her teacher—who knew she came from the famous red bean pancake town of Wandan—encouraged her to apply plant dyeing techniques to red bean pancakes as a way to create an additional source of income.

▲ Colorful red bean pancakes on the baking tray.

Wang Huiling, experimenting with curiosity, began sourcing raw materials—starting with natural plants that also have medicinal value. After trial and error and consulting experts, she tested various flavors and methods, eventually developing:green made with matcha,red made with red beans,black made with bamboo charcoal,brown made with coffee, andyellow made with gardeniared bean pancakes. Fillings can be mixed and matched with red beans, butter, sesame, taro, etc., either in combination or as single-color pancakes.

Wang Huiling said that after 10 years of studying plant dyeing, understanding the characteristics of plants allows her to make full use of each one’s unique features—not every colored plant can be used. To make the red bean pancakes more colorful, she searched hard for many plants and failed many times. Back then, whenever she failed, she would ask friends to help eat the results—so much so that her friends grew tired of them.

Wang Huiling, who insists on using only all-natural ingredients, said that aside from the five colors, it would be even more novel if blue pancakes could be made—but she is still searching for a suitable blue ingredient.

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