Specialty Dishes · 7 of Grills · Seven of Grills

Pajeon

Pajeon (Green Onion Pancake) · 파전

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 25–30 min
Serves: 2 servings (2장)
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

Pajeon cooks scallions in batter. This recipe includes squid, shrimp and egg, so its vegetable-led name does not describe a vegetable-only pancake.

Compare its flour-based batter with bindaetteok’s ground mung beans. Dip an edge rather than covering the whole pancake in soy sauce, and choose by thickness and seafood content as well as the name.

Cook this version

Images are AI-generated illustrations, not records of a kitchen test. Follow the written ingredients and steps. Ingredients and substitutions guide

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 8–10 min
Wait: None
Ready in: 25–30 min

For seafood pajeon, verify that the center batter is cooked and the seafood is opaque.

Ingredients (2 servings (2장))

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Thin green onions (scallions)	2 handfuls	Chives, or large scallions split lengthwise
Korean pancake mix	1 cup	1 cup flour plus salt and 2 tbsp starch
Rice flour	3 tbsp	The Dongnae texture secret; fine to omit
Eggs	2	Anywhere
Squid and shrimp (mixed seafood)	1 cup (optional)	Frozen seafood mix
Korean green chili	1	Serrano
Cooking oil	Generous	Crispness is measured in oil
Soy sauce and vinegar	For dipping	Soy and vinegar 3 to 1

Step by step

1.Mix the batter
Start from the pancake-mix package’s water ratio, then add the rice flour and cold water gradually. Aim for batter that flows in a thin coating around the scallions. Fry a small test pancake to check spread and thickness, and record the water you actually used.
2.Lay the scallions
Oil a hot pan generously and lay the scallions side by side. The scallions are the pancake's skeleton.
3.Batter and seafood on top
Pour the batter evenly over the scallions and scatter the seafood and sliced chili. Drizzle the beaten egg over everything.
4.Fry it crisp
Cook one side over medium heat for 4–5 minutes, flip in one motion, add oil around the edges, and cook the other side for 4–5 minutes. Verify that the center batter is set and the seafood is opaque.
5.Serve with makgeolli
Cut into pieces and serve with the soy-vinegar dip. One bowl of makgeolli completes it.

Before you start, and if it goes wrong

Pancake mixes need different water ratios. Make a small test pancake first and record water volume and pan size.

Brown exterior, wet center: Lower the heat and continue cooking; make the next pancake smaller and thinner. Check seafood doneness separately if using it.
Breaks during flipping: Let the underside set before moving it and use a broad spatula. Smaller pancakes are easier to turn.

These are editorial suggestions based on the recipe steps, not results from our own kitchen tests. Check the food’s condition as you apply them.

Measurement, doneness and storage references

Make your cooking notes

Record products, quantities, actual times and results to compare your next attempt. You can note photo filenames. Notes are not sent to a server and are lost when you leave this page, so save the file first.

Your notes

Places to check when planning a meal

Candidates to investigate for this food. Maps use sourced location records; confirm the current menu, opening and booking directly. This list is not a tasting review or an award certification.

Dongnae Halmae Pajeon

Dongnae, Busan

부산광역시 동래구 명륜로94번길 43-10 (복천동, A동(1층), B동(1~2층))Checked 2026.08.09

Public-record location check, not a live opening-hours guarantee. Confirm with the restaurant before visiting.

Location source 1

Directions Naver Map

Wonjo Dongnae Pajeon

Dongnae, Busan

Exact current location is not verified here. Confirm the venue through its official information before planning a visit.

The fictional face of this dish

Water element · a face of soft curves

You know the romance of a rainy day. Never loud, yet the sound of rain and sizzling oil gathers people to you: a warm-hearted, affectionate face.

Upright: What you needed was never a plan but an excuse. If it rains today, that is the signal: call the person you have postponed and fry up a round.

Reversed: Fry a pancake at every rainfall and the oil jar runs dry. Romance is fine, but today put up the umbrella and go do your work. The pajeon is not going anywhere.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

Those cheekbones glow soft: a face that seeps rather than shouts. Subtle cheekbones carry the harmonizer's energy, holding up the table without stepping forward. Pajeon is exactly that, no? Never the star of the feast, yet the moment rain falls, the whole nation goes looking for it. Your presence works the same magic: unassuming, yet missed by everyone the moment it is gone. That quiet pull is your weapon, so no need to raise your voice.

Those brows are light: a face unbound. A mild Palace of Siblings lives clear, not dragged about by attachments. And yet people strangely gather to you, the way the smell of frying batter travels. That they collect around you uninvited is proof you put people at ease. But keep receiving everyone and your makgeolli cup never gets a rest. Learn to flip a refusal now and then, the way you flip a pancake.

Those eye corners drift down gently: soft-hearted, unable to refuse a favor. Even suggesting pancakes on a rainy day is you looking after others, and the hand that piles seafood on without stinting is your heart made visible. But child, affection mixed too thin tears apart in the pan like weak batter. Give what you give, and keep the crispy edge for yourself.

You were born with the talent of turning gray days golden and fragrant. When everyone else calls the sky gloomy, you are the one heating the oil. How much that romance saves the people around you will be proven every time it rains.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

A bowl of makgeolli under the sound of rain is a match verified by the ancestors themselves. Beside solemn gomtang your romance gets treated as idle talk, so stay off the clear-day lunch table.