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Originally posted by Sundancer7

We have a place in Knoxville that sells Phillipine Egg Rolls. The are wonderful and I cannot ascertain what is the difference between theirs and the other egg rolls sold in our community.

If you can help, I would appreciate.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Sundancer,
Have you had any luck yet with this? If not, try looking up "lumpia" online – I’m presuming that’s what your talking about. (They’re sold all over the Bay Area, and always appear at office potlucks anywhere there are Filipino workers. I used to have a coworker who would make hundreds of them to parcel out to us, his buddies. Those bundles easily weighed a couple of pounds, and would be gone in no time, once I got home and fried them up. I bought my first wok because of this guy.) The key ingredient is pork, and locals seem to go really easy on the vegies. They are also very small here – about finger-sized. I remember them looking larger, much more like egg rolls, when I was growing in SoCal.
Good luck,
Richard
Berkeley/SF, CA