Spring rolls are a large variety of filled, rolled appetizers. The name is a literal translation of the Chinese chūn juǎn (春卷 'spring roll') found in East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. The kind of wrapper, fillings, and cooking technique used, as well as the name, vary considerably within this large area.
Famous quotes containing the words spring and/or roll:
“No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,
Soft as spring wind thats come from birchen bowers.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters.”
—Jane, Lady Wilde (18211896)
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