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Default Wrapping food in pieces of lettuce?

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Steve Wertz > wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:50:34 GMT,
> wrote:
>
> >Is it a (possibly regional) Chinese practice at all to wrap (bite-sized)
> >pieces of food in lettuce? (similar to Peking duck, but with lettuce)
> >Thanks!

>
> There are lettuce cups/wraps which are filled with diced or
> shredded meat and veggies, eaten like small soft tacos. I've
> never heard of bite-sized lettuce wraps, though.
>
> Wrapping slightly larger things, like fried, grilled
> beef/pork/stuffed squids in lettuce is fairly common in Vietnamese
> cuisine as well.
>
> -sw


Works with spinach leaves too. ;-)

K.

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