Great food from the Philippines: Lumpiang Shanghai
by Dave from The Longest Way Home ~ May 20th, 2009. Published in: Travel blog » Great food from around the world.Lumpiang Shanghai from the Philippines
Lumpiang Shanghai from the Philippines (click to enlarge)
Another Chinese / Asian influenced dish with a Filipino twist. Lumpiang Shanghai is a variation of a spring roll; thin filo style pastry wrapped around pork or beef with some carrot, or green bean.
To be honest the most common place I found Lumpiang Shanghai was in Chow King (fast food), and in lower mid class and up style eateries. I never found it on the street stands.
They are usually served in threes and are about 3 inches long. Crunchy, meaty and tasty. The cost varies greatly, but in a 30 pesos for 3 is about average.
This is an additional post and one of a series highlighting Great food from the Philippines
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Chow king! They’ve also got the most consistently good halo-halo too. Mmmm…ube ice cream. Did you try the banana lumpia on the streets of El Nido?
Yep Chow King No.1!! And I will admit now, it will have a feature soon. I won’t mention the Jolli one yet … Had banana lumpia? No, got me there. – Ube ice cream, and yam ice cream yes!