Cholula, you know too much!!! I made many, many $$$ from the egg rolls that my company makes for J-i-t-B! Every time customers like kingalien eat my egg rolls, I throw a thicker steak on my barbie! God Bless the USA and Free Enterprise... I'm off to Prague tomorrow with the family for a couple weeks of R & R. I plan to tip a glass of Pilsner Urquell to Toast in absentia all those consumers who scarf up my products and allow me to own an apartment in Sydney, travel extensively, pay college tuition in one payment and just plain live the good life! Hell... They can even douse the stuff I make in Cholula Hot Sauce if it causes them to consume more! :cool:

I've had those before!!
 

My father was the director of the graduate college at the local university....when we were kids, he was always bringing home sweets one of his students or colleagues brought back from visits abroad....Thanks for the memory!

Since we are all over the map here...

* Love the J-i-t-B egg rolls... about as good as a fast-food egg roll can get. ^

* Speaking of Asian egg desserts, what about egg custard tarts? (I've dragged many a FTer around various street vendor carts around Hong Kong and Macau in search of the best fresh tart.)

* What is the whole convention on fried vs. non-fried spring rolls? Is it cultural?

For those travelling to Southern Wisconsin, there is a local restaurant in a northern suburb of Milwaukee (called Fox Point) called Port China.

I grew up there, and still dream about the egg rolls they serve. Giant, filled with pork and vegetables, fried perfectly, and I am pretty sure made with a bit of peanut butter for flavor/texture.

God, I'm hungry now.

Here in LA, my job is to enrich those who make money from the jitb eggrolls as often as possible. Love those 5 packs!

Now that we know the difference between spring rolls and egg rolls, what defines / differentiates a Summer Roll?

Reason I like the egg rolls is that we made similar ones back home in the east when I was a kid....I think you stole the recipe :D so about sharing that Sydney apt...jk.

Egg tarts are great especially when fresh. The Asian bakeries here have two kinds, the regular flaky crust kind and another called Portugese egg tart which has what seems like a normal pie crust.
As for the non-fried rolls, mostly served in Vietnamese restaurants which also serve the traditional fried spring rolls - these tend to have mostly meat compared with the Chinese type that have veggies only or veggie and meat.

My question is: does anyone actually consume the accompanying mustard?

Yes! Mixed with a little soy sauce (or shoyu as we call it in HI). To make my own hot mustard at home I just reconstitute a little Coleman's dry mustard. :)

I love the vietnamese imperial rolls(deep fried)so great when you have all of these textures and tempatures going on in one bite!The crunch of the rice paper,the heat of the filling,the coolness of the lettuce,the smoothness of the sauce-oh I think I just decided what to have for dinner!

No. No. It is plum sauce for me and my egg/spring roll

Egg Tarts, Rolls, etc
 

On Topic: I much prefer the thicker wrapper of the egg roll vice the translucent, flakier spring roll. My half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese wife thinks I'm nuts.

Some of the best egg tarts I found living three years in Hong Kong were, interestingly enough, made by Kentucky Fried Chicken. The recipe, I'm told, was one of the original great ones from a chef in Macao who sold it to KFC. Mmmm. Good. And I don't really like egg tarts! ^

Absolutely and the hotter the better. In fact the "hot" mustard that comes with egg rolls is usually lame as it loses strength the longer it sits.
I usually make my own hot mustard with Coleman's Dry Mustard and beer...:).

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I've heard that from so many current/former Hong Kong residents that I always make KFC one of my "tour de egg tart" stops.

The best egg tart I ever had was consumed standing on a street corner in Macau... they had a store that sold all sorts of jerky and an old glass case that kept the fresh tarts turning under a hot light out on the sidewalk. Mmmmmmmmm....

I was on my way home from Boaz AL yesterday and passed through Gadsden around lunch time. I saw a sign for an eggroll business and had to stop. I ordered the daily special which was 3 eggrolls and a can of soda for $5.99. I picked 2 "original" and one "chicken". I was shocked at the ingredients of both. The "original" was hamburger, cabbage and CHEESE. The "chicken" was chunks of white chicken meat in a green curry sauce. I'll have to stop by again and get more details, but this was weird. Something about the name and the look of the lady running things said "Korean", but I'm not sure. Anyone else come across unexpected eggroll ingredients?