"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, ravinwulf
> > wrote:
>
>> I also found a number of references to using
>> rice papers (banh trang) for wrappers and I suspect that might be the
>> thing I want
>
>> anybody know what the difference is between and egg roll and a spring
>> roll?
>
> Go for the rice paper.
> Egg rolls are deep fried; spring rolls, AFAIK, are fresh. Often
> accompanied by hoisin sauce.
> --

funny how the names for products change, depending on where you live...

In Australia (or at least in Sth Australia where I live), spring rolls are
the fried rolls wrapped in rice paper (or spring roll wraps as they're
called here) and cold rolls (often called Vietnamese cold rolls) are the
ones made with spring roll wrappers which have just been soaked enough to
make them pliable (and are normally served with hoisin type sauce)

We don't have anything called egg rolls here
Cheers mates :-)
Maria