{{short description|Type of dim sum}} {{About|the dish that originated in East and Southeast Asia|the similar Chinese-American dish|Egg roll}} {{Redirect-synonym|Chicken roll|Chicken fillet roll}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox food | name = Spring roll | image = Spring Rolls (3357696061).jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = | alternate_name = | country = China, Thailand, Vietnam<ref name="Les nems">[https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2001/04/18/les-nems_4171451_1819218.html/ Le Monde], Les nems.</ref> | region = East Asia and Southeast Asia | creator = | course = Hors d'oeuvre | type = | served = | main_ingredient = | variations = See below | calories = | other = | module = {{Infobox Chinese |child=yes |c=春卷 |l=Spring roll |p=chūn juǎn |y=chēun gyún |showflag=py }} }}
'''Spring rolls''' are rolled appetizers or dim sum commonly found in Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Southeast Asian cuisines. The wrapper, fillings, and cooking technique vary by region but are generally filled with vegetables or ground meat.
==Regional history== thumb|Fried spring rolls
===East Asia=== ====Mainland China==== Spring rolls are a seasonal food consumed during the spring; it started as a pancake filled with the new season's spring vegetables, a welcome change from the preserved foods of the long winter months.<ref name="Sri Owen">{{cite book | title = Sri Owen's Indonesian Food | author = Sri Owen | publisher = Pavilion Books | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781909815476 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aAjACAAAQBAJ&q=Lumpia+Indonesian+spring+rolls&pg=PT440 | access-date = 16 February 2016 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160223113353/https://books.google.com/books?id=aAjACAAAQBAJ&pg=PT440&dq=Lumpia+Indonesian+spring+rolls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjut7r_vPvKAhULwo4KHQbuAZAQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=Lumpia%20Indonesian%20spring%20rolls&f=false | archive-date = 23 February 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> In Chinese cuisine, spring rolls are savoury rolls with cabbage and other vegetable fillings inside a thinly wrapped cylindrical pastry. They are usually eaten during the Spring Festival in mainland China, hence the name. Meat varieties, particularly pork, are also popular. Fried spring rolls are generally small and crisp. They can be sweet or savoury, the former often with red bean paste filling, and the latter typically prepared with vegetables. They are fully wrapped before being pan-fried or deep-fried.
Non-fried spring rolls are typically bigger and more savoury. Unlike fried spring rolls, non-fried ones are typically made by filling the wrapping with pre-cooked ingredients. Traditionally, they are a festive food eaten during the Cold Food Day festival and the Tomb Sweeping Day festival in spring to remember and pay respect to ancestors. The Hakka population sometimes also eats spring rolls on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar (三月三 sān yuè sān). The wrappings can be a flour-based mix or batter.
====Hong Kong and Macau==== thumb|Hong Kong-style spring rolls Spring roll is a fried dish usually available as a dim sum.<ref name="yeinjee"> {{cite web |url = http://yeinjee.com/food/maxims-chinese-restaurant-hong-kong-international-airport/#more-130 |title = Maxim's Chinese Restaurant, Hong Kong International Airport |author = yeinjee |work = yeinjee.com |date = 23 January 2008 |access-date = 13 August 2012 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110921061318/http://yeinjee.com/food/maxims-chinese-restaurant-hong-kong-international-airport/#more-130 |archive-date = 21 September 2011 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> They typically contain minced pork, shredded carrot, bean sprouts and other vegetables served with dipping sauce.
====Taiwan==== In Taiwan, the most commonly eaten non-fried spring rolls are ''popiah'', called ''lūn-piánn'' ({{lang|zh|潤餅}}) or ''po̍h-piánn'' ({{lang|zh|薄餅}}) in Taiwanese. In northern Taiwan, the ingredients are generally flavoured with herbs, stir-fried, and sometimes topped with a finely ground peanut powder before being wrapped. In southern Taiwan, the ingredients are generally boiled or blanched in plain water. Sometimes caster or super fine sugar is added along with the peanut powder before all the ingredients are wrapped.
====Japan==== In Japan, spring rolls are known as ''harumaki'' (春巻き) and are often served with karashi mustard or soy sauce.
===Southeast Asia=== ==== Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore ==== {{Main|Lumpia|Popiah}} [[File:Loenpia Gang Lombok Semarang.jpg|thumb|Fried and unfried ''lumpia'']] [[File:YosriPopiaGoreng1.jpg|thumb|Hot and spicy popiah in Malaysia]]
''Lumpia'' is the name for spring rolls in Indonesia<ref>{{cite web | title = Indonesian spring rolls (Lumpia) | author = Tony Tan | work = Gourmet Traveller Australia | date = 16 June 2011 | url =http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/recipes/recipe-search/chefs-recipes/2011/6/indonesian-spring-rolls-lumpia/ | access-date = 25 February 2016 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305123145/http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/recipes/recipe-search/chefs-recipes/2011/6/indonesian-spring-rolls-lumpia/ | archive-date = 5 March 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> and the Philippines, which was derived from Southern Chinese spring rolls. The name ''lumpia'' derives from Hokkien ''lunpia'' ({{lang-zh|t=潤餅|p=rùnbǐng|poj=jūn-piáⁿ, lūn-piáⁿ}}) and was introduced in the Philippine islands during the 17th century.<ref name="afr">{{cite web |title=Filipino lumpia gets an American flair |url=https://www.americanfoodroots.com/my-american-roots/filipino-lumpia-gets-an-american-flair/ |website=American Food Roots |access-date=30 December 2018 |archive-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233432/https://www.americanfoodroots.com/my-american-roots/filipino-lumpia-gets-an-american-flair/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is a savoury snack made of thin crêpe pastry skin enveloping a mixture of savoury fillings, consisting of chopped vegetables (including carrots, cabbage, green beans, bamboo shoots, banana heart and leeks), or sometimes also minced meat (chicken, shrimp, pork or beef).<ref name="Phil-Kitchen">{{Cite book | title = Memories of Philippine Kitchens | author1 = Amy Besa | author2 = Romy Dorotan | publisher = Abrams | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781613128084 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=He-RBQAAQBAJ&q=Lumpia&pg=PT185 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160224061721/https://books.google.com/books?id=He-RBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT185&dq=Lumpia#v=onepage&q=Lumpia&f=false | archive-date = 24 February 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> It is often served as an appetizer or snack, and might be served deep-fried or fresh (unfried). In Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, it is called ''popiah'' as in Taiwan, while in Myanmar, it is referred as ''kawpyan'' (ကော်ပြန့်).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_891_2005-01-10.html |title=Popiah |author=Suchitthra Vasu|publisher=National Library Board |location=Singapore |year=2018 |access-date=16 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924211052/http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_891_2005-01-10.html |archive-date=24 September 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==== Cambodia ==== [[File:Spring rolls in restaurant in Siem Reap.jpg|thumb|Cambodian fried spring rolls with a dipping sauce]] Cambodian fried spring rolls are called {{lang|km-latn|chai yor}} ({{langx|km|ចៃយ៉}}) or {{lang|km-latn|naem chien}} ({{lang|km|ណែមចៀន}}). Despite originating in the Chinese Cambodian community, fried spring rolls have spread throughout the country. They are different from Chinese spring rolls with their filling often not being cooked before frying, making Cambodian spring rolls lighter. Also, fish sauce is usually used in the filling, instead of oyster or soy sauce, and Cambodian spring rolls, if not reheated, are fried only once.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dunston |first=Lara |date=5 January 2021 |title=Cambodian Fried Spring Rolls Recipe for Crispy Deep-Fried Egg Rolls |url=https://grantourismotravels.com/cambodian-fried-spring-rolls-recipe/ |website=Grantourismo Travels |accessdate=7 January 2021}}</ref>
==== Vietnam ==== {{Main|Chả giò|gỏi cuốn}} thumb|Video demonstration of spring roll preparation
The fried version with minced pork or chicken is called imperial rolls or ''chả giò'' (southern Vietnam), ''nem cuốn'', ''chả cuốn'' or ''Nem rán'' (northern Vietnam). They are often called "egg rolls" and "spring rolls" in Western countries, which is a misnomer. Central Vietnam has its own version of a fried roll called "ram". Ram is always made from whole shell-on shrimp or chopped de-shelled shrimp and some green onions, wrapped in rice paper wrappers and deep fried. Like most speciality food items from central Vietnam, ram is not widely available in Vietnamese restaurants overseas.
A Vietnamese imperial roll is different from a Chinese spring roll in that it is typically smaller and contains ground or chopped meats/seafood such as pork, crab, shrimp, chicken, taro or cassava, glass noodles, wood-ear fungi or oyster mushrooms, and shredded carrots. Rice paper is traditionally used as wrappers. However, several Vietnamese restaurants in Western countries may use egg spring roll wrappers due to the unavailability of rice paper or ease of use.
[[File:Vietnamese spring rolls (23691938909).jpg|thumb|Gỏi cuốn or summer roll]]
{| class="wikitable" |+ Vietnamese spring roll names |- ! Region or Type !! Header text |- | South of Vietnam || Chả giò |- | North of Vietnam || Nem |- | Rice paper roll not fried || Gỏi cuốn or [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popiah Bò bía] |}
Rice paper rolls or summer rolls are a Vietnamese delicacy known as "gỏi cuốn" or "nem cuốn". Depending on the region, salad rolls were made differently. Some vegetarian families make vegetarian rice paper rolls rather than meat rice paper rolls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8629396/|title=Vietnamese rice paper rolls at Saigon Bistro, 6244 N. California Ave.|first=Steve|last=Dolinsky|website=ABC7 Chicago|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414124603/http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8629396/|archive-date=14 April 2016}}</ref> However, the typical ingredients include slivers of cooked pork (most often cha pork sausages), shrimp, sometimes chicken or tofu, fresh herbs like basil or cilantro, lettuce, cucumbers, sometimes fresh garlic, chives, rice vermicelli, all wrapped in moistened rice paper. A typical "gỏi cuốn" may only contain boiled pork, boiled rice noodles, cucumber, carrot and herbs. Fresh Vietnamese rice paper rolls can be made at home or found at Vietnamese restaurants<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-find-20101007-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Miles | last=Clements | title=The Find: Dat Thanh in Westminster | date=7 October 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120519031955/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/07/food/la-fo-find-20101007 | archive-date=19 May 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-25-ca-35806-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Max | last=Jacobson | title=A Real Meal for Under $4? It's True | date=25 September 1997 | url-status=live | archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120518051946/http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/25/entertainment/ca-35806 | archive-date=18 May 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and some grocery stores. They are served at room temperature with dipping sauce. Nước chấm, tương xào, or a hoisin peanut sauce are all common dipping sauces. A typical hoisin dipping sauce includes chilli, hoisin sauce, peanut butter and sugar. A standard "nước mắm pha" (nước chấm) dipping sauce is composed of fish sauce, lime, garlic, sugar, and chillies or simply fish sauce, sugar and vinegar.
===Oceania=== [[File:Jimmy's On the Mall spring rolls, Brisbane.jpg|thumb|Spring rolls in Brisbane, Australia]]
====Australia==== In Australia, a diverse range of authentic Asian cuisine is available due to immigration, multiculturalism, and the abundant fresh local produce. Both dim sims and Chiko Rolls were inspired by Chinese spring rolls.
Small spring rolls that have either a vegetable filling, or a meat filling are a popular snack sold in many takeaway shops in Australia. Frozen spring rolls can also be purchased in supermarkets, to cook at home.
Australians also have their own version of a spring roll that can be found in many fish and chip shops in Australia and bought from a supermarket, which is the Chiko Roll. Rather than using pastry with a rolling technique, they have a more doughy texture.
===Vanuatu=== [[File:Vanuatu Nem Spring Rolls.jpg|thumb|Vanuatu-style ''nems'' (deep-fried spring rolls), stuffed with minced beef]]
Spring rolls are a popular dish in modern Vanuatuan cuisine. Known as ''nems'', from the Vietnamese name via French, they are typically made with rice paper, stuffed with pork, chicken or beef, and deep-fried.<ref>{{cite web | title=Nems Recipe from Ni-Vanuatu Cuisine – Cuisines of World – Thousands of recipes around the world | url=https://cuisinesofworld.com/vanuatu/nems-recipe-from-ni-vanuatu-cuisine/ }}</ref>
===Europe=== [[File:Rotlles de primavera d'un restaurant a la carretera del Portitxol, Xàbia.jpg|thumb|Spring rolls in Xàbia, Spain]]
====Germany, France and Poland==== In Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, deep-fried spring rolls are called ''Frühlingsrolle'', while the Vietnamese salad rolls are called ''Sommerrolle'' ("summer roll"). The French call them ''nem'' for the fried ones and ''rouleaux de printemps'' for the others, whereas in Poland, they are known as ''sajgonki'', named after Saigon, the city from which many of the Vietnamese immigrants in Poland originated.
====Netherlands and Belgium==== In the Netherlands and Belgium, spring rolls are known as ''loempia'' and are deep-fried or sometimes baked. They are thought to have been introduced by immigrants (including Chinese) from Indonesia, a former colony of the Netherlands. Loempias are filled with bean sprouts, chopped omelette, and sliced chicken or crab. It's also getting more common for loempias to appear with sweet and spicy sauces.
====United Kingdom==== In the United Kingdom spring rolls used to be, and sometimes still are, known as ''pancake rolls'', though these tend to be somewhat larger than those described as spring rolls.
====Northern Europe==== In the Nordic countries, they are known as {{lang|sv|vårrullar/er}} (Swedish/Norwegian),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alltommat.se/recept?recipeid=5885|title=recept – Allt om Mat|first=Allt om|last=Mat|website=www.alltommat.se|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504202815/http://alltommat.se/recept/?recipeid=5885|archive-date=4 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/v%C3%A5rrull|title=vårrull|work=Store norske leksikon |date=29 September 2014|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309054942/https://snl.no/v%C3%A5rrull|archive-date=9 March 2016}}</ref> {{lang|da|forårsruller}} (Danish), or {{lang|fi|kevätkääryle}} (Finnish).
===North America=== [[File:Asian Spring Rolls at a Restaurant.jpg|thumb|Spring rolls in San Francisco]]
====United States==== Madison, Wisconsin, has a hyper-local variety of spring roll unique to the city. In Madison, spring rolls are often served in an extra large format weighing between 1–1.5 lbs.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://captimes.com/food-drink/roll-foods-goes-big-on-willy-street-with-giant-spring-rolls/article_13ff73c4-858f-11ee-b753-634766e95cc6.html | title=Roll Foods goes big on Willy Street with giant spring rolls | date=19 November 2023 }}</ref> These spring rolls, originally created by a Thai immigrant in 2006,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://humansofmadison.journalism.wisc.edu/the-story-of-tuy-anongdeth-her-spring-rolls/index.html | title=The Story of Tuy Anongdeth & Her Spring Rolls }}</ref> are stuffed with cabbage, cilantro, iceberg lettuce, jalapeños, avocado, cucumbers and rice noodles.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://madison.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/tuy-madison-fresh-cool-drinks/article_0f6b9e30-6eb7-11ee-adc8-8fcc89aab677.html | title=Fans line up at Fresh Cool Drinks for Tuy's smile — and her spring rolls | date=23 October 2023 }}</ref> They can be found at numerous restaurants and food stalls in the city.
===Latin America=== ====Brazil==== In Brazil, spring rolls are called either ''rolinhos-primavera'' ({{IPA|pt|ʁoˈlĩɲus pɾimɐˈvɛɾɐ|IPA}}), which is an approximate free translation from English, or as it is called in Japanese restaurants and among people who are used to the plate by the way it came to Brazil from Japanese immigrants, {{nihongo|"spring roll"|春巻き|''harumaki''}} ({{IPA|ja|haɾɯmaki|IPA}}). They can be found mostly in Chinese restaurants, usually served with a ''molho agridoce'' (sweet and sour sauce) to dip, usually bright red and hot, made with ketchup, vinegar, sugar and sometimes spices such as star anise, which accompanies some other kinds of dishes, and can include onion and sweet pepper. Some Japanese restaurants also serve spring rolls in Brazil, but generally plain or with soy sauce to dip (''molho agridoce'' is also available in some). They are also found in buffet-like fast food restaurants, and can be called either by the Japanese or Brazilian Portuguese name, but most often the latter.
====Chile==== In Chile, spring rolls are called ''arrollado primavera'', and supermarkets, street vendors and Chinese restaurants sell them. (However, in other countries, "arrollado primavera" refers to a savoury pinwheel-type roll made with thin sponge cake and should not be confused with the Chilean version.)
====Costa Rica==== In Costa Rica, spring rolls are called in Spanish ''rollito de primavera'' ("little spring roll"), but are popularly known as "Taco Chino" and are offered in almost all Chinese restaurants as an entree or appetizer.
====Mexico==== In Mexico, spring rolls are called ''rollos primavera'' (which translates directly to "spring rolls") and are sold in many Chinese restaurants and fast-food establishments accompanied with sweet and sour or soy sauces. On the northwest border with the US, especially in Mexicali, Baja California, the spring rolls are known as ''chunkun''; this name could be related to the Korean chungwon (춘권). They are deep-fried and usually served with ketchup topped with a dot of hot mustard as a dipping sauce.
====Argentina and Uruguay==== In Argentina and Uruguay, spring rolls are commonly known as ''empanaditas chinas'' (Chinese turnover) and also ''arrolladitos primavera'' (which translates directly to "spring rolls"), and supermarkets and Chinese restaurants sell them. They are a common treat carried by catering services and are usually served with a small bowl of sweet and sour sauce to dip them in.
====Venezuela==== In Venezuela, spring rolls are called ''lumpia'' as in the Philippines and Indonesia. Many Chinese restaurants sell them, and they are usually served with sweet and sour or soy sauce.
== See also == {{portal|Food}} {{div col}} * Egg roll * Dim sum * List of stuffed dishes * Pastel * Sambousa * Summer roll {{div col end}}
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