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Originally posted by Red@Oct 14 2004, 08:27 PM
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@Oct 14 2004, 11:45 AM
Ah, vietnamese springrolls. Especially from that place on Centre Street North. My girlfriend doesn't understand how I can prefer vietnamese springrolls to chinese. I can't understand how anyone can prefer the opposite.
Wheat thins and cracker-barrel old cheddar cheese, toasted. Has to be Cracker Barrel. Any other brand just doesn't taste as good.
Home-made pickled garlic--I made six cans of them this year, and I can't wait until they're done--still a couple weeks more. And I did one can of pickled garlic with lemongrass. Should be damn tasty. Also pickled carrots, pickled shallots, pickled thai peppers and pickled jalepenos.
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Vitenamese springrolls have meat in them and Chinese usually don't.
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Umm it's the other way around.
I prefer viet rolls just because they are smaller and easier to eat. If you eat a chinese spring roll in dimsum you will have MSG intoxication for 3 days! [/b][/quote]
Well, I'm not sure I've ever had a vegetarian vietnamese spring-roll, but there are definitely meat-based chinese ones.
Generally, vietnamese use a mix of ground pork, carrots, and rice vermicelli, and are stuffed solid. Other ingredients often include ginger, daikon, and ground shrimp.
Chinese springrolls use a looser mix of ingredients--not packed solid like vietnamese. The key defining ingredient, I think, is the bean sprouts. Pretty much every chinese springroll I've ever had has beensprouts. Other common vegetables are bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, carrots, and mushrooms. And yes, chicken or pork is also used sometimes.
For me, part of it is the sauce--with vietnamese, you get the great fish-sauce-based stuff, and the ground pork just soaks it up. With the chinese springrolls, you get the thick, gelatinous plum sauce that just sort of coats everything. The vietnamese sauce is definitely better.