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Lumpia are pastries of the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 and Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 of Chinese
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
 origin and are similar to spring roll
Spring roll

Spring rolls are a specific type of fried pastries. Spring rolls can be found in several Asian countries, most notably China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia....
s. The term lumpia derives from lunpia (; POJ
Pe?h-oe-ji

Pe?h-oe-ji is an orthography in the Latin alphabet created and introduced to Fujian and Taiwan by Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century....
: jun-pián, lun-pián) in the Hokkien
Min Nan

The Southern Min language, or Min Nan, refers to a family of Chinese dialects which are spoken in southern Fujian and neighboring areas, and by descendants of overseas Chinese in diaspora....
 language. The recipe, both fried and fresh versions, was brought by the Chinese immigrants from the Fujian
Fujian

is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
 province of China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 to Southeast Asia and became popular where they settled in the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 and Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
. In the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, it is spelled loempia which is the old Indonesian
Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Malay language from the Riau islands in western Indonesia, today called Riau Indonesian....
 spelling for lumpia and has also become the generic name for "spring roll
Spring roll

Spring rolls are a specific type of fried pastries. Spring rolls can be found in several Asian countries, most notably China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia....
" in Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
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Lumpia are pastries of the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 and Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 of Chinese
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
 origin and are similar to spring roll
Spring roll

Spring rolls are a specific type of fried pastries. Spring rolls can be found in several Asian countries, most notably China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia....
s. The term lumpia derives from lunpia (; POJ
Pe?h-oe-ji

Pe?h-oe-ji is an orthography in the Latin alphabet created and introduced to Fujian and Taiwan by Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century....
: jun-pián, lun-pián) in the Hokkien
Min Nan

The Southern Min language, or Min Nan, refers to a family of Chinese dialects which are spoken in southern Fujian and neighboring areas, and by descendants of overseas Chinese in diaspora....
 language. The recipe, both fried and fresh versions, was brought by the Chinese immigrants from the Fujian
Fujian

is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
 province of China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 to Southeast Asia and became popular where they settled in the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 and Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
. In the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, it is spelled loempia which is the old Indonesian
Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Malay language from the Riau islands in western Indonesia, today called Riau Indonesian....
 spelling for lumpia and has also become the generic name for "spring roll
Spring roll

Spring rolls are a specific type of fried pastries. Spring rolls can be found in several Asian countries, most notably China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia....
" in Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
. A variant is the Vietnamese
Cuisine of Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine is known for its common use of fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables. Vietnamese recipes use a diverse range of herbs, including Cymbopogon, mint, Vietnamese mint, Eryngium foetidum and Thai basil leaves....
 lumpia, wrapped in a thinner piece of pastry, in a size close to a spring roll though the wrapping closes the ends off completely, which is typical for lumpia.

Varieties


Indonesian


Lumpia Basah
It literally means "wet spring roll" which means spring roll without frying. It is similar to the Vietnamese
Cuisine of Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine is known for its common use of fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables. Vietnamese recipes use a diverse range of herbs, including Cymbopogon, mint, Vietnamese mint, Eryngium foetidum and Thai basil leaves....
 spring roll with bean sprouts, carrots, shrimp and/or chicken, and served with sweet tauco (another Hokkien word for salted soybeans) sauce.

Lumpia Semarang
Named after the capital city of Central Java in Indonesia, Semarang
Semarang

Semarang is a city on the north coast of the island of Java , Indonesia. It is the capital of the province of Central Java. It has an area of 373.67 km? and a population of approximately 1.5 million people, making it Indonesia's fifth largest city....
. It was created by Chinese immigrants in the city of Semarang. It is filled with bamboo shoots, dried shrimp (ebi in Indonesian
Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Malay language from the Riau islands in western Indonesia, today called Riau Indonesian....
) chicken and/or prawn. It is served with lumpia sauce that is made from dried shrimp (optional), coconut sugar, red chillies, bird's eye chilies, water, ground white pepper, tapioca starch and water and can be served in either fried or unfried condition.

Filipino


Lumpia Hubad
Lumpiang Hubad literally means naked spring roll. It is basically an unwrapped Lumpiang Sariwa (without the crepe).

Lumpiang Sariwa
Lumpiang Sariwa, or fresh spring rolls in English, consist of minced ubod (heart of palm
Heart of palm

Heart of palm, also called palm heart, burglar's thigh, palmito, chonta or swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees ....
), flaked chicken
Chicken

The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
, crushed peanuts
Peanut

The peanut, or groundnut , is a species in the legume Fabaceae native to South America, Mexico and Central America. It is an annual plant herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm tall....
, and turnip
Turnip

The turnip is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot. Small, tender, varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties are grown as fodder for livestock....
s as an extender in a double wrapping of lettuce
Lettuce

Lettuce is a temperate annual plant or biennial plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable. In many countries, it is typically eaten cold, raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and in many other dishes....
 leaf and a yellowish egg crepe
Crêpe

A cr?pe is a type of very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of France origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled." While cr?pes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is nowadays widespread in France and it is considered...
. The accompanying sauce is made from chicken or pork stock, a starch
Starch

File:Amylose2.svgFile:Amylopektin Sessel.svgStarch or amylum is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds....
 mixture, and fresh garlic
Garlic

Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive....
. This variety is not fried and is usually around 2 inches in diameter and 6 inches in length; it is also the most popular among the Filipino variants. It is derived from the original Chinese popiah
Popiah

Popiah is a Fujian cuisine/Chaozhou cuisine fresh spring roll common in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Popiah is often eaten in the Fujian province of China and its neighboring Chaoshan on the Qingming Festival....
.

Lumpiang Shanghai
This type of lumpia is filled with ground pork, minced onion, carrot
Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot....
s, and spices with the mixture held together by beaten egg
Egg (food)

An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves....
. It may sometimes contain green pea
Pea

A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the legume Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Although treated as a vegetable in cooking, it is botanically a fruit....
s. Both lumpiang shanghai and the sweet and sour sauce are served with attests to the Chinese
Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
 influence. This variety is by standard an inch in diameter and approximately 4-6 inches in length. However, most restaurants and street vendors often serve lumpia shanghai in smaller diameters, typically one-half to three-quarter inches, and is served with a spicy sauce instead of a sweet and sour sauce.

Lumpiang Prito/Lumpiang Gulay
Lumpiang Prito literally means fried spring roll. It consists of a briskly fried pancake filled with bean sprout
Bean sprout

Bean sprout may refer to several foods made from sprouted beans:*Mung bean#Bean sprouts*Soybean sprouts*Sprouts of other types of bean...
s and various other vegetables such as string beans and carrots. Small morsels of meat or seafood may also be added. Though it is the least expensive of the variants, the preparation – the cutting of vegetables and meats into appropriately small pieces and subsequent pre-cooking – may prove taxing and labor-intensive. This variant may come in sizes as little as that of lumpiang shanghai or as big as that of lumpiang sariwa. It is usually eaten with vinegar and chili peppers, or a soy sauce-and-calamondin
Calamondin

Calamondin or Kalamansi The fruit of the calamondin resembles a small, round Lime , usually 25-35mm in diameter, but sometimes up to 45mm....
 juice mixture known as toyo-mansi.

Lumpiang Ubod
This is another variation of the Filipino spring rolls which is made from coconut julienne
Julienne

Julienne, Francophone given name, may refer to:* Julienne, Charente, a commune of the Charente d?partement in France* Julienning, a technique of shredding vegetables or other food into long, thin strips...
 or heart of palm
Heart of palm

Heart of palm, also called palm heart, burglar's thigh, palmito, chonta or swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees ....
. Lumpiang Ubod is a specialty of Silay City
Silay City

Silay City is a 2nd class Philippine city in the Philippine province of Negros Occidental province, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it had a population of 107,722 people in 21,446 households....
, Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental

Negros Occidental is a Provinces of the Philippines of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Bacolod City and occupies at the northwestern half of Negros island; Negros Oriental is at the southeastern half....
.

Banana Lumpia or Turon
Banana lumpia or Turon is a Philippine dessert, made of thinly sliced bananas (preferably ripe plantains), a slice of jackfruit
Jackfruit

The jackfruit is a species of tree of the mulberry family native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is well suited to tropical lowlands....
, dusted with brown sugar
Brown sugar

Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar....
, rolled in a papery wrapper and fried. Brown sugar is further added while frying for additional sweetness.

Popularity

Lumpia has such enduring popularity that one can see at least one variant in almost any set of Filipino or Indonesian festivities. Its distinct taste and ease of preparation (the Shanghai variant at least) has caused it to be one of the staple food products on the menus of many Filipino restaurants in the United States, including Lumpia Pansit atbp., Jollibee
Jollibee

Jollibee Foods Corporation widely known as Jollibee is a fast-food restaurant chain based in the Philippines. As of December 2007, Jollibee has become one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world with 1,655 stores worldwide and total sales of more than US$1 billion....
 and Chowking
Chowking

Chowking is a Philippine-based chain that pioneered the Oriental quick-service restaurant concept in the Philippines. The concept combines the best in Western fast-food style of service and the the delicious taste of Chinese food....
.

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See also

  • Popiah
    Popiah

    Popiah is a Fujian cuisine/Chaozhou cuisine fresh spring roll common in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Popiah is often eaten in the Fujian province of China and its neighboring Chaoshan on the Qingming Festival....
  • Crepe
    Crêpe

    A cr?pe is a type of very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of France origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled." While cr?pes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is nowadays widespread in France and it is considered...
  • Filipino Chinese cuisine
    Filipino Chinese cuisine

    There are many types of foods in the Philippines because of inhabitants residing in the country. Most of the Filipino Chinese are ones who have businesses in Chinese food and service restaurants....