Can any one tell me what is the different between egg rolls and spring rolls?

Answer 1

The main difference between spring rolls and egg rolls is the thickness of the wrapping. An egg roll is made with a thicker wrapper that contains egg. The spring roll wrapper is made out of rice and remains unfried while the eggroll wrapper is egg based and fried.

Answer 2

its just the wrapper. The egg rolls have egg in the wrapper ( that's why is bubbles when its fried) while the spring roll wrappers dont. some spring roll wrappers are made of flour and they're also deep-fried. i think its just the vietnamese & thai that don't cook the spring rolls usually. the filling in both rolls are essentially the same but can be changed according to taste.

Answer 3

Egg roll was an invention in the american chinese eateries while spring roll was the original thing. Nowadays, they can use any filling with any style wrapper really. Some of the Vietnamese style ones are made with translucent rice wrappers and not even fried.

Answer 4

What's the difference between a spring roll and an egg roll?

As simple-sounding questions go, you can put that one up there with
other great conundrums, like that one about the chicken or the egg,
or the one about whether a tree falling in the forest with no one to
hear it makes a sound.

Short answer: There's no such thing as an egg roll. It's really just
a Chinese spring roll that got made with a cheaper, egg-based wrapper
when Cantonese chefs came to America.

But that's not completely true, because there are egg rolls in
Vietnam, made with egg-based crepe wrappers, which have a fancy
reputation because they came from Hue, which used to be Vietnam's
imperial city.

And just about the time you get used to thinking of fried egg rolls
as spring rolls, you go to an Asian restaurant, order a spring roll
and get something that isn't fried at all. And that's a spring roll,
too, except that sometimes they're called garden rolls or summer
rolls.

To unravel the intricacies, we turned to Nina Simonds, the author of
"A Spoonful of Ginger," which tackled the subject of healing foods in
Asia. Simonds has spent many years there but these days she lives
near Boston. And her new book is much simpler: "Asian Wraps" (Morrow,
$23).

"A spring roll is the authentic version of what we have come to know
as the egg roll," she said.

In China, the New Year's banquet table was filled with foods that
were not only made with expensive ingredients, but that also were
supposed to resemble expensive things, to symbolize prosperity in the
coming year.

Crispy spring rolls, fried golden brown, were supposed to look like
stacks of gold bars. They were called spring rolls because, under the
lunar calendar, New Year's marked the start of spring.

The irony was that while the spring roll was fancy food in China,
when it came to America, it became something that was cheap to make.

"The authentic spring roll," says Simonds, "is not only very thin,
it's elegant, actually.

"The egg roll is rather, in a way, coarse. It's stodgy looking. It's
filled with cabbage, versus this elegant, thin bar of gold that's
stuffed with expensive ingredients."

But what about Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, where you find a spring
roll that isn't fried at all?

"It's really hard to make a generalization," says Simonds. "Many
restaurants do it differently. Even in Vietnam, they're called spring
rolls and they say 'fried' or 'fresh.'"

Both are made with rice paper, a rice-flour-based wrapper that
becomes almost translucent when it's soaked in water. The difference
is the filling, says Simonds. Fresh spring rolls usually have thin
rice noodles, fresh herbs - usually mint, cilantro, Thai basil or all
three - lettuce and shrimp, sometimes with barbecued pork mixed in. A
fried spring roll usually has a ground meat filling and cellophane
noodles or bean threads instead of rice noodles.

The presentation can be different, too. In the Thai version, fresh
spring rolls are often wrapped in lettuce and fresh herbs. In
Vietnam, fried ones are wrapped in lettuce

Answer 5

Egg rolls are usually made in such as a sandwich shop they consist of perhaps a lettuce base with crushed boiled or scrambled eggs in a bread roll.
A spring roll leans towards a Chinese type product with meat and Chinese vegies in a tight type of roll made from a pastry substance.

Answer 6

I beg to differ...

Egg rolls are what you usually see in chinese restaurants. Eggs are beaten and used to brush the outer creasing of the wrapper so it will stay closed during FRYING.

Springs rolls are made with rice paper. They have rice vermicelli, lettuce, mint, boiled pork slices, and chives. They are not fried. And you eat it with nuoc cham.

So for people who say it's the same thing--really check it out before you say anything.

In Vietnamese egg rolls are cha gio and spring rolls are goi cuon.

Answer 7

an egg roll has pork in it and spring roll is strictly vegetables.

Answer 8

Spring rolls are a CHinese invention and have soy and other vegetables inside

Answer 9

true eggrolls have egg holding the filling together but the words are interchangable now.

Answer 10

no diffs just 2 words for one item.