Here's a video taken today of my new friend Sheila D. (the Amy Elizardo look-a-like) showing everybody an incredibly important thing that you should all know....how to roll lumpia.
In case you don't know what lumpia are, wikipedia explains: Lumpia are pastries of the Philippines and Indonesia of Chinese origin and are similar to spring rolls. The term lumpia derives from lunpia (traditional Chinese: 潤餅; pinyin: rùnbǐng; POJ: jūn-piáⁿ, lūn-piáⁿ) in the Hokkien language. The recipe, both fried and fresh versions, was brought by the Chinese immigrants from the Fujian province of China to Southeast Asia and became popular where they settled in the Philippines and Indonesia. In the Netherlands, it is spelled loempia which is the old Indonesian spelling for lumpia and has also become the generic name for "spring roll" in Dutch. A variant is the Vietnamese 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.
Shelia and her coworker Amy S. worked as an expertly cohesive lumpia-wrapping team and made about 100 of the tasty treats, which will be fried and eaten at the office holiday party tomorrow, which I was invited to even though I don't really work here (only in Biloxi, MS for a week).
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