These are from a small cart in Chinatown; a very small Cart. Inside the narrow window, the two men had two cast iron forms into which they poured batter in the bottom of the form and closed the lid over top. The batter cooked for a minute, the lid was opened and these little round puffy shaped pastry pieces were dumped onto the small counter, cut apart and 15 bagged for a $1. The resemblance to the Dutch poffertjes or the Swedish aebleskivers is astounding. Did the Europeans bring it back from the Far East in their years of ‘discovery’?