Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fire: A World of Flavour

By Christine Manfield

Published 2008

  • About

With its origins in Nonya cooking, popiah is the Malay equivalent of the Vietnamese fresh spring roll or the Chinese bao bing. These fresh, uncooked spring rolls are made with tissue-thin wrappers filled with vegetables or fish and seasoned with chilli. I first became addicted to them when I lived in Adelaide, where one of the hawker-style food stalls at the Central Market makes them to order. Popiah are best eaten fresh and at room temperature – something seems to be lost when they are ref