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 Wheelcake Island is one of the hot street food which is putting Londoners in a spin. The mainstay of the capital’s new roadside spot is wheel-shaped cakes, as the name s    3    . Though wheel cakes are a Japanese invention, they are well-liked in other Asian countries and are now making i      4    to the West. 

Those who queue round the block for the wheel cake use an analogy of a soft, moist, fluffy Taiwanese pancakes to describe this foreign dessert. With chocolate o    5    out of the cake, an overwhelmed customer said that biting into a wheel cake was a   6   to taste buds getting a massage from 42 fairies all at the same time. “Bringing a completely new dish to the marketplace is much more difficult than we first imagined,” say co-founders Felix Tse and Yi-Ting Lin, who decided to set up a street food business because Lin’s brother missed his Taiwanese wheel cakes from back home. Many Taiwanese people have fond memories of m   7    on wheel cakes. The most typical flavor is red bean but Tse and Lin are not afraid to add a modern t   8   to the convention such as chocolate, custard and mocha. While the red bean is synonymous with wheel cakes in Asia, it puts off many Brits. The d    9   y in the reception of the red bean flavor in Taiwan and Britain is linked to how beans are cooked in Asia and the West. Beans are a popular i   10   seen in many Asian desserts but westerners like to use beans in savory recipes.

      With tasty fillings and the help of their mascot — a “humble fat frog” — Wheelcake Island aims to make this mainstay of Taiwan’s night markets a local favorite in London too