Spring rolls symbolise wealth because their shape looks similar to gold bars:
Duck represents a happy, healthy, and prosperous year. The skin of finished roasted Peking Duck is usually red, a lucky colour in Chinese Culture:
Pork represents strength and abundance blessings. Bao Bun also looks like a wallet filled with lots of wealth(the meat) in between:
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Marion Grasby is a food producer, television presenter and cookbook author who’s had a life-long love affair with Asian food.
Marion is a little bit Thai (courtesy of her mum) and a little bit Australian (courtesy of her dad).
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It makes me happy watching you:) Amazing recipes!
Love you Marion! but hope you would use the term Lunar New Year for next year! More inclusive =)
Thank you so much for preparing this video! Absolutely fantastic!
Awesome recipe for CNY. Thanks Marion.
happy Chinese new year๏ผMarion
Happy Chinese New Year!
Spring rolls here in the US depends on the wrapper. If itโs not lumpia but your using a lumpia wrapper its spring rolls for the thinner crispier wrapper. Egg rolls are made from the smaller thicker wrapper. I prefer lumpia and spring rolls over egg rolls.
Cept it's Lunar new year – not just celebrated by the chinese, but lots of other peoples of south east asia.
Those look like some expensive spring rolls but looks tasty.
I'm in Canada…Egg rolls are kinda like a larger spring roll filled bean sprouts and are generally deep fried. Spring rolls are usually smaller and I believe a different exterior. Those ones in rice paper are usually called fresh spring rolls or salad rolls.
Marion,your Singapore noodles are to die for,out 10 I'd give them 20 ๐
Hi Marion and team. I am a your fan, but as an Asian, I just want to correct one thing from your channel. You should say 'Lunar New Year', NOT 'Chinese New Year'. It's many Asians festival, NOT Mandarin speakers 'spring festival'. Amongst Asians, no one says 'Happy American Christmas', I mean that we don't use 'certain' country's name for westerners festival. As an Asian, you and your team deeply think and choose the words when you guys describe or explain the things, are related to cultural stuff.
Iโm from the US and those are definitely eggrolls to us lol and yes the fresh ones are spring rolls! My Canadian friends call the fried ones spring rolls and the fresh ones summer rolls! Which I never heard until I met them.
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Marion do you send your products to Europe?
Marion this great receipts I would tried this tomorrow
Looks soooo delicious ๐๐
It should be called Lunar New Year. It's celebrated by Vietnamese and Korean too, not just Chinese.
The world can call these egg rolls, spring rolls, how ever rolls they want but in Philippines its Lumpia.
If you used precooked meat filling for spring rolls with cheese you don't need to cook them so long which keeps the cheese inside!
Can I do in spring rolls in the fan oven with spray oil?
Happy Chinese New Year! I am finally home for CNY after 4 years and I can't wait to make some dishes I learned from you over past few years for my family! Thank you!
I live in the US. When WE say spring rolls, we mean the thin coated, crispy fried little rolls, usually with just vegetable, about the size of your cheeseburger spring rolls. We call those things you referred to in your video "cold rolls" or "wet rolls" but I think even within the US that may be a regional term. Our egg rolls are thicker and bigger and we actually distinguish between "do they have cabbage egg rolls or bean sprout (bean shoot) egg rolls?" Because everyone here has very divisive feelings on that lol
Marion. Does the pork belly have the skin on? Going to a function on Saturday. Making yummy boo buns. Thank you and much love from Oregon โค
Love the cheeseburger spring rolls! Spring rolls in our country are often stuffed with pork + shrimp, chicken, sweet potato or bamboo shoots but almost never beef.
The egg rolls sound really great. I never thought of this combo for them. Yum!! And I must say that the "big reveal" on the pork belly does sound as if you are going to show off the new baby! You are such a natural comedienne. Love your work.
Hi Marion, another great vid.
I recently tried both Ur Thai salad dressing and Ur Vietnamese salad dressing and they were both superb! Of all celeb products available, Ur line is without doubt head and shoulders above all others. U clearly hold urself to high standards and is reflected in Ur products. You r to b commended ๐ And thank you so much. Take care ๐๐
You are such a breath of fresh air! My kitty, Adele & I love to watch you and try some of your recipes!
We have here in nyc spring and egg roll wrapers. Very different
You talk to DAX so much now, I want to see what he looks like….
I was told the difference is the size. The eggrolls were huge and the spring roll was small not more than 2 fingers wide. But not being Asian I have just been going off what I was told. I was also told that the fillings are very different. Spring rolls are more spring-like veggies and very lil meat and egg rolls have well anything and are more of an American Asian invention… lol I have 0 clues, to be honest.
I can't wait to make your duck recipe. I love duck & crisp duck is just the best. I'm sure your recipe will be great because I've already tried your turkey breast recipe & it was the very first time I made turkey & didn't throw it out immediately after cooking it. I couldn't believe how wonderful your turkey was; it was moist, flavorful, & just divine. I looked up your 5-Spice recipe as well. Thanks for your recipes.
All the best foods seem to have to have "a little bit of character " ๐