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spring roll (deep-fried)
A Chinese-origin dish of shredded vegetables and meat wrapped in a thin wheat skin and deep-fried. A staple item on Chinese restaurant menus in Japan and a common bento side.
Composed of 春 (spring) + 巻き (roll). The name reflects the dish's origin as a way to wrap fresh spring vegetables. In Japan the term almost always refers to the deep-fried Chinese-style roll, not the fresh Vietnamese-style 生春巻き.
Common collocations
- 春巻きを揚げる: to fry spring rolls
- 春巻きの皮: spring-roll wrappers
- 生春巻き: fresh (Vietnamese-style) spring rolls
- エビ春巻き: shrimp spring rolls
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