Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Egg Rolls vs. Spring Rolls

Which is the best Egg Rolls or Spring Rolls? I will be judging it from my opinion. To start off I will talk about Egg Rolls. They are very delicious appetizers! It contains noodles, cabbage, carrots, onion, black pepper, salt, meat (pork, beef, or shrimp), and anything else the maker would want to add. All the ingredients get mixed up in a big bowl and then wrapped in wrappers. After wrapping it it gets deep fried in a big pot or pan of oil. Then it's ready to be eaten. It's something that everyone has to try. I am assuming everyone has already. It may be oily but the taste is very satisfying. For Egg rolls on a one being the best and five being the worst scale i'd give it a one.

The next thing is Spring Rolls. They are also very good. There are 2 types of spring rolls. One with lettuce that doesn't need any cooking and one with cilantro and onions that does need to be cooked. The spring rolls with the lettuce is basially like a salad wrapped in an almost clear wrapper. The wrapper is round like a taco wrapper but it's not made of dough. When you roll the spring roll you can put many things in it. For example there is noodles, you can put shrimp, pork, beef, lettuce, cilantro, carrots, cucumbers, crab, basically anything. After wrapping it you just eat it. The other type of Spring Rolls are the ones made by cooking. First, the meat is cooked usually it's pork, then you add the chopped cilantro and onion into the meat. Then the powder packets are mixed with water and oil into a liquid solution. It will have some thickness to it. Then the liquid solution is put onto a pan with the utensil with a big deep round shape. When the liquid is cooked it becomes almost like a thin clay or dough but glossier, thinner, and more transparent. After the liquid is cooked it is put onto a big plate and someone puts the meat mixture in it. Then it is wrapped and ready to eat. All of these would be best to eat with cut up peppers with fish sauce and lime juice.

My recommendations out of all of them would be the Egg Rolls. It's delicious and you don't need to add much to make it taste better. It has alot more flavoring in your mouth versus the other two. The spring rolls are more of a plain salad healthier type of spring rolls.

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