Popiah ( spring roll )

Popiah

Location of delicious popiah: 

Blk 449 Clementi Ave 3
See Lam Herm coffee shop

Social and cultural significance of food preparation and consumption: 

Spring rolls are eaten during the spring festival. 

They symbolize wealth, because their shape is similar to gold bars. 

When having spring rolls, people eat the entire roll from one end to the other, symbolizing that everything in the coming year will end in success! ^^ 


History of popiah:

Popiah  is a Fujian/Chaozhou-style fresh spring roll. It originated from China and was brought into Singapore.

Food Preparations:

A popiah "skin" is a soft, thin paper-like crepe or pancake made from wheat flour.

It is eaten in accompaniment with a sweet sauce, a blended soya sauce or hoisin sauce or a shrimp paste sauce optionally with hot chilli sauce before it is filled. The filling is mainly finely grated and steamed or stir-fried turnip, jicama which has been cooked with a combination of other ingredients such as bean sprouts, French beans, and lettuce leaves, depending on the individual vendor, along with grated carrots, slices of Chinese sausage, thinly sliced fried tofu, chopped peanuts or peanut powder, fried shallots, and shredded omelette. Other common variations of popiah include pork, shrimp or crab meat. Seaweed is often included in the Xiamen versions. Some hawkers in Malaysia and Singapore, especially in non-halal settings, will add fried pork lard. As a fresh spring roll, the popiah skin itself is not fried.

Sometimes, they fry the popiah so it becomes crunchy.

Consumption

Just eat it.

Reviews:

"It is very tasty and nice."

" You can taste many different vegetables in the popiah."

"Not only its full of fresh ingredients filling like turnip, bean sprouts, carrot, minced garlic, grated peanuts, eggs, and also included shredded cucumber . This not only improve the taste, but it also adds on to the crunchiness of the popiah and once you started eating, its "non stop" and I would buy 2 more rolls. The popiah skin is soft and I especially like the chilli to me, its spicy enough and when blended with the garlic, it is superb. To make things better, the sweet sauce is especially nice and not artificially sweet or overboard, its just an abosolutely perfect combination. Its worth of the price as some stalls that are selling at a higher price are smaller in size and their ingredients are fresh and soft."

Ratings:

4/5

:)

Credits:

Wikipedia