Vietnamese Spring Rolls

I'm quite sure when it comes to chain food store of Chinese cuisine, most people quickly remembered the name "Panda Express" and how wonderful the food tasted. After you get you pick of rice or noodles and the variety of choices for main entree. Before reaching the cash register, the server will ask you "would you like an eggroll with your meal?" and most people would say "yes"...come on now...it's that good!!!

That's what the Chinese people are famous for: Kung Pow chicken, Orange chicken and eggroll! For us Vietnamese ancestry, spring roll is our way of life (beside pho). The idea for this post originated while browsing through my blogroll and ended up at a post of Viet World Kitchen. In this post, the author (a previous contestant of the Top Chef serie) asked her follower about what is authenticty Vietnamese cuisine? From the perspective of a foreigner or someone who is not familiar with the Vietnamese cuisine? and not surprisingly, Goi Cuon is the name that was brought to my attention; thus, my post today dedicated to this appetizer.

The ingredients have two components: main ingredients and by-choice ingredients. Main ingredients include: rice paper, pork belly layer, shrimp, nuoc mam (a type of seasoner fish sauce, usually home-made). By-choice ingredients include: lettuce and any type of vegetables you would want you want with your goi cuon.


1) Vegetables 2) boil shrimp 3) cooked broil pork 4) thin rice noodle 5) nuoc mam

The etiquette for this dish is quite simple.

Step-by-step instruction

1: Submerge your rice paper in warm water and quickly removed from the bowl of water and placed it on your round plate.

2: Use a small piece of lettuce as your base of support and began piling the all the ingredients together as shown.



3. Began folding two extra sides of the mix and slowly start rolling from the extra side behind the mix. Began rolling forward slowly and pressing the mix together before they bust out.

the final product (as shown below), dip with the dipping sauce (shown above)


Thanks and enjoy studying/eating/reading/cramming!!!

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