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Amarantha
 
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"MG" > wrote in
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>
> 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
>
>


Iirc, American egg rolls are the same as our spring rolls. They're not
made with rice paper, afaik. The cold ones, in Victoria, are known as rice
paper rolls or summer rolls. I've never seen one fried.

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