House favorite

Lumpia with Sweet Chilli Sauce

Five crispy pork spring rolls, fried to order, served with sweet chilli sauce.

$10.00

Contains

soy
wheat
egg

Dish photos are illustrative.

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Five long golden fried lumpia in a row on a banana leaf on a white plate, steam rising, with a small glass bowl of red-orange sweet chilli sauce beside them.

Where lumpia comes from

Lumpia arrived in the Philippines with Chinese traders — the name comes from Hokkien, and versions of the same rolled, wrapped idea turn up across Southeast Asia. Filipino kitchens took it in so completely that most people who grew up eating it would not think to call it borrowed.

The fried, finger-length kind is party food in the plainest sense: something made in quantity, stacked on a tray, eaten standing up with your hands and a small dish of sauce. If there is a birthday, a graduation, or a table of people who have not seen each other in a while, there is usually lumpia on it.