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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:59:52 -0800 (PST),
> wrote:
>
>> A recently defunct SF restaurant, Kam's near the Balboa Theater, was the
>> only SF Chinese restaurant I knew of to have Chop Suey on the menu.
>
> I have never seen Chop Suey anywhere except in a can at the grocery
> store. But I didn't travel the Northeast a lot.
>
>> Spring rolls are crispy? I think the author's thinking of lumpia, which
>> are crisp. Eggrolls always contain shrimp.
>
> Spring rolls are crispy. What you're thinking are actually SUMMER
> rolls. But when the Thai started selling food in America, they
> erroneously started calling the rice-paper-wrapped raw veggie rolls
> spring rolls just to confuse everybody.
>
> Look at "spring roll wrappers" in the grocery store imported from
> China (in the freezer section near the won ton wrappers). They are
> meant to be fried.

I've seen them either way.