Lumpia

Of course these deep fried spring rolls are never been forgotten to put on restaurant menus especially in Philippine-Chinese restaurants in our country. I discovered lumpia after we ate on a simple eatery with my friends, not knowing that it is eaten and known in several other cuisines.

Lumpia is sold on street food stalls and it can be handed out as an appetizer. The sauces were creatively produced with various ingredients.

There are two trendy adaptations of lumpia: lumpiang shanghai, deep fried, meat-filled, fairly slender, and usually came with a sweet chili paste, and lumpiang ubod, fresh, sometimes deep-fried, wider, and filled with crusty vegetables and minced meat are crammed of your choice.

The two adaptations- fried and fresh, was brought by the Chinese settlers in Southeast Asia and turned out to be popular in Philippines and in Indonesia as these were the places where they settled.

The simplicity to prepare has caused it to be one of the main food products on the menus of many restaurants worldwide.

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