Eating in China
Mung-bean cakes for soup ingredient on a plain plate.

Mung-bean cakes for soup

绿豆饼Lǜdòubǐng

Small, flat, roughly coin-sized cakes made by pan-cooking a mung-bean-flour batter.

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A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Small, flat, roughly coin-sized cakes made by pan-cooking a mung-bean-flour batter.

In the kitchen

One possible addition in Huainan beef soup.

The Luohe preparation blends mung-bean flour with another flour and water. These savory discs differ from molded sweet mung-bean pastries and can be fried, stir-fried or added to soup.

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这道菜里有绿豆饼吗?

Does this dish contain Mung-bean cakes for soup?

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