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Spring roll Wikipedia

Image:East-asian-food-spring-rolls-3.jpg|thumb|250px|A "fresh spring roll" which doesn't need to be fried before eaten.

Spring rolls (zh-cp|c=春卷|p=chūnjuǎn) are pastry|pastries with julienne|julienned vegetables (such as cabbage|cabbages, carrot|carrots, or wood ear fungi). Some include strips of meat, usually pork; others have seafood in them. The filling is wrapped in a thin, flour wrapper, and usually deep fried. The spring roll is usually mistaken for its cousin, the egg roll, which has a thicker wrapper and contains more filling, and is part of American Chinese cuisine.

Australia has a tradition of westernising Asian dishes, with its Australian counterpart known as the Chiko Roll, See also: Dim sim.

Spring rolls are usually eaten during the Spring Festival in China, hence the name.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, spring rolls are known as Loempia.

Image:Taiwanese spring roll.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A partitioned Taiwanese cuisine| Taiwanese spring roll (??????) whose wheat-based wrapper is unfried.

Last Modified:   2005-11-07