Actually, people called Vietnamese cha gio "Vietnamese egg roll" because the Vietnamese cha gio does look somewhat similar to a Chinese egg roll. Their ingredients are originally completely different but makers sometimes use their ingredients interchangeably nowadays. Chinese egg rolls are wrapped in wheat paper while Vietnamese cha gio are wrapped in rice paper. Nowadays, many restaurants use wheat paper to wrap Vietnamese cha gio. Vietnamese cha gio main ingredient is meat with vegetable garnishment while the Chinese egg roll main ingredient is vegetable with some meat. Nowadays, many restaurants add a lot of meat to a Chinese egg roll to attract customers.
Un nem. It's the Vietnamese word, of course - the French colonised Vietnam.
so that a different part of the egg can stay warm.
Chinesefood.about.com is a good place to start for a Chicken Egg Roll Recipes. The website has several different recipes to choose from. Most of the recipes have dipping sauces to accompany the egg roll.
According to Wikipedia, the uncooked egg roll is dipped in egg or an egg wash and then fried.
An egg roll is apiece of snack food.
It's Huge!!!!! Sausage!!!! I like how Chinese people say egg roll.
The joke where the punchline is bacause the egg roll is What do you get when a chicken lays an egg on top of a barn?
According to thefood dictionary at Epicurious.com ... an egg roll is a small, stuffed Chinese pastry usually served as an appetizer, filled with minced vegetables and meat, rolled in a wrapper which is make of egg, salt, water, and dough, then deep fried. A spring roll is smaller, more delicate version of an egg roll and are traditionally served on the first day of the Chinese new year... which takes place in early spring. Even though the recipe to make egg roll and spring roll are the same, typically egg roll wrappers are a little thicker.
According to thefood dictionary at Epicurious.com ... an egg roll is a small, stuffed Chinese pastry usually served as an appetizer, filled with minced vegetables and meat, rolled in a wrapper which is make of egg, salt, water, and dough, then deep fried. A spring roll is smaller, more delicate version of an egg roll and are traditionally served on the first day of the Chinese new year... which takes place in early spring. Even though the recipe to make egg roll and spring roll are the same, typically egg roll wrappers are a little thicker.
The main difference between a spring roll and an egg roll is that a spring roll has a clear, non-fried wrapper while an egg roll has a fried opaque wrapper.
Barrel Roll, Spring Roll, Bed Roll, Bread Roll, Honor Roll, Egg Roll, I'm on a roll
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