Lumpiang Shanghai
Filipino appetizer
Lumpiang Shanghai (also known as Filipino spring rolls, or simply lumpia or lumpiya) is a Filipino deep-fried appetizer consisting of a mixture of giniling (ground pork) with vegetables like carrots, chopped scallions or red onions and garlic, wrapped in a thin egg crêpe. Lumpiang Shanghai is regarded as the most basic type of lumpia in Filipino cuisine, and it is usually smaller and thinner than other lumpia variants.
Origin
The name of the wrapper is derived from Hokkien: "lun" means wet, moist, or soft, and "pia" means cake or pastry. Despite its etymology, the development of lumpiang Shanghai is not necessarily of Mainland Chinese culinary origin, but is of combined Mexican Hispanic and Filipino-Chinese culinary origin. It can be considered as part of Mexican Hispanic culinary influences in Filipino cuisine brought over from the Spanish galleon trade. It is originally a Filipino version of taquito which was called "flautas" due to its cylindrical shape before it was known to be "lumpiang Shanghai". The early version of the wrap is made of tortilla from Mexican corn flour masa. When Chinese migrants opened business in the Philippines, due to the scarcity of corn produce and the abundance of rice they introduced their own version of wrap made from rice flour in lumpia wrapper. The original length of lumpiang Shanghai is at least a ruler long but due to convenience it was cut to finger size to be convenient as a finger food. Filipino lumpia varieties, as well as the wrappers used, which are thinner in comparison to Chinese spring roll wrappers, have been nativized.
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