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A Sandwich A Day: Pancake with Egg at Henan Flavor

A Sandwich a Day

A new sandwich every day.

Carey Jones
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Published: April 20, 2012 Last Updated: August 9, 2018

In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.

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[Photograph: Robyn Lee]

I first became aware of the pancake with egg ($1.75) from Henan Flavor (full review here) when Dave Cook over at Eating in Translation jokingly called it a "Egg McHenan". A Henanese egg sandwich? Man, I was there.

It looks like Dave's had a runny-middled egg, which ours certainly didn't. But either way, I find no fault with a fried egg set in a nearly greaseless, spongy griddled pancake, with a little soy to liven it up. Exciting? Nah, not particularly. But the pancake is well-made and I'd take the whole package over an egg-on-stale-roll any day. Reasonable size, reasonable cost, relatively healthy: a totally serviceable breakfast on the go. Particularly when it costs about as much as my bodega coffee.

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68b Forsyth Street, New York NY 10002 (map) 212-625-8299

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I've been a part of Serious Eats since 2006, when I was Ed Levine's first intern. After years as the New York editor and then the Senior Managing Editor, I'm now a freelance writer and author of Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktails and Spirits.

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