Mung bean sprouts are tricky things, I tell ya'

 Mung bean sprouts are difficult to deal with, they grow too quick, aggressively, they go bad early. They will smother the other seeds if they're packed too tight, so if you don't spread them out far enough half the seeds will be like old men and the other half will barely have sprouted. And the hulls of the sprouted ones will start fermenting before other seeds have their chance to get their pants out. So doing a big container sprouting for mung sprouts isn't a good idea it turns out. Lentil sprouts, on the other hand, much better idea, comparatively speaking.

Next project: make sweet mung bean soup for the summer, a dessert of sorts, with coconut milk and brown sugar. Can be eaten hot or cold. And cold will be the way I'll go, obviously. Mooncakes too, not hard to make, with added sugar and butter and salt. Such a tantalizing idea, exciting, I'm looking forward to consuming mung beans in other ways besides dal and in sprouted form.

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