Wrap it up!!!

Lumpia, popiah, bò bía, harumaki,... whatever you call it. It's essentially variety of vegetable wrapped in thin skins. Or in common english, we call it Spring rolls.

Philippines style Lumpia

The great thing about spring rolls is you can fill in practically anything you like. Indonesian Mataram Lumpia filled with bamboo shoots, some other like Singapore Popiah are using stewed grated jicama (Bangkuang). Some snacks vendor in Jakarta filled their Risol (politically wrong name derived from Rissole. Which is practically a spring roll as well but coated with crumbs) with vermicelli, bean sprouts and bits of tofu. in short, you can fill in anything with spring rolls.

Singapore Style popiah

I've seen spring roll sushi, spring roll filled with freshly stir fried vegetable, spring rolls with fresh prawns and sticks of zesty spring onion...

What I've found is: Everybody loves spring rolls! Seriously. I love it. And if you think you want to start evolving some dish, you can definitely start with spring rolls, or rissole if you have time to make the skin. (normally spring rolls skins are easily store-bought while rissole demanded home-made labor-intensive crepe-like skin)

Indonesian Style Lumpia

Just wrap it up! Once upon a time in China, some guy wrap duck skin, cucumber, spring onion, and a bit of hoisin sauce and Voila! Peking Duck was born! now it's your turn. Don't be afraid to wrap it up! It's good, nice and practical.

Peking Duck... essentially a spring roll...

Go for it! Wrap it up!

He who comes first, eats first. [Eike von Repkow]