Egg roll

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Egg roll
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Freshly fried egg roll with rough, bubbly outer skin
TypeChinese-American cuisine
Course Hors d'oeuvre or side dish
Place of originUnited States
Created byUndetermined. General belief is in New York City in the 1930s. Henry Low included an egg roll recipe in his 1938 book Cook at Home in Chinese.
Main ingredientsWheat pastry skin, cabbage, pork (or other meat)

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Egg roll
Chinese 蛋卷
Literal meaning"egg roll"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin dàn juǎn
IPA [tân.tɕɥɛ̀n]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping daan6-gyun2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ tàn-kòan