I first tasted bindaetteok - Korean mung bean pancakes - on a winter trip to Seoul. I made a hurried visit to Gwangjang Market in search of Korean pine nuts (which are excellent). I had a dinner ...

Korean and Indian cuisines both use mung beans in the batter for pancake-like dishes. Mung bean starch is often used to make bean thread noodles, which are also called cellophane or glass noodles.

such as kimchi pancakes or mung bean pancakes (leave out the meat for that recipe), rice and banchan.

Other dishes at Ainogarden Kitchen include deodeokgui, or grilled lance asiabell root, and bindaetteok -- mung bean pancakes packed with ground mung beans, kimchi vegetables and pork. After taking ...