# Restaurants that don't serve essential dishes/items

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-that-dont-serve-essential-dishes-items/1014451 "2025-02-18T13:21:47Z")\
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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> But the wrapper and the filling are more like “egg rolls” then like spring rolls.

How do they differ? What you’re describing sound like Chinese spring rolls to me. The spring rolls I’ve had at Chinese places are pretty much like smaller egg rolls with a thinner exterior. (At Southeast Asian places, they are a completely different thing, made with a translucent rice paper wrapper and served cold.)

ETA: Something like this:

[![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51q8UkW9qpL.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51q8UkW9qpL.jpg)

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