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A correction should be made in this article, where it is stated that a spring roll is "never deep fried". Spring rolls are often fried in American, Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese cuisine, and deep frying is not excluded from this method. In other countries a spring roll may be boiled in a light broth or salted water, however they are almost never eaten raw. Further, this article contradicts the article on Summer roll, which are typically eaten raw, in contrast to a spring roll. --riyley 1:14pm, 16 Nov 2006 (MST)

What are julienned vegetables? --Abdull 13:25, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Julienned just refers to a way of cutting them. Personally when I make egg rolls or spring rolls, I just stick the vegetables in a food processor until they're cut up small (but not liquified)

This article needs some serious work, and needs to be merged with the summer roll article, depending on locality, summer rolls == spring rolls. I have been to many Vietnamese resturants, and only ever seen one use the phrase "summer roll", most use the phrase "spring roll". Dividing this article by country and even region would be a good idea, within Vietnam alone different regions have very different methods of making spring rolls. Com2kid 01:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The paragraph on Vietnamese "egg rolls" is actually incorrect - these are the actual spring rolls, made of a wheat-based pastry. There is no such thing as a roll made of rice paper that is fried up. I've also never heard of the rice paper rolls/summer rolls referred to as spring rolls. I agree with Com2kid that this article needs a lot of work. Pyon 07:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

This article claims that spring rolls are made with phyllo dough, which is a pastry sheet of Greek origin made with buter. Spring roll wrappers are made without any fat, and are frequently made with rice flour. In short, the word phyllo has no business appearing in this article unless it is used in comparison with the actual material that is used. Sun da sheng 02:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


No variants are commonly called "eggrolls" in Australia, although they are in the USA. Eregli bob 11:13, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The Chiko roll in Australia is not a spring roll, spring rolls are also sold in Australia alongside Chiko rolls in many cases, they are large and deep fried also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.144.127.200 (talk) 18:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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There seem to be much more complete articles for spring roll' in the edit history. I think the current page may be a result of vandalism, but a quick glance over previous edits does not reveal an un-vandalized version. Someone with some time and knowledge should looking into fixing this. TheTyrant (talk) 14:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)TheTyrant

You are correct. Large amounts of vandalism on 14 March 2008 by IP user 63.194.84.113. I have restored the edits and did a major cleanup. I don't know if the user thinks much of the info was unencylopedic? Benjwong (talk) 00:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)