> But as for the English explanation of this dish, "fried noodle" or > "fried noodle roll" might work. > > -- > Jo Ann Malina, [email removed] > "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." > -- Henry David Thoreau Thanks for your suggestion, Jo. And great sig quote. The problem with 'noodle' is that the inside is more like uncut sheets of noodle dough. So now I'm thinking 'rice dumpling crepe rolls'. I have posted the question to alt.soc.culture.vietnam. Too bad my replicator takes so much bandwidth - I'd wire you the dish itself. ;-) BTW, if any of y'all travel to SE VA, the best original fare (including Chesapeake Bay blue crab cakes with big hunks of backfin and *never* a shell fragment) will be found at The Lucky Star on Pleasure House Rd. in Va. Beach. Sushi Yama in Newport News, although traditional, is the best sushi place (as verified a couple years back in Seafood Leader magazine). We also have one excellent microbrewer, Dale Klug, who also writes for the regional beer magazines, at the Hilltop Brewing Co. in Va. Beach. Y'all write before coming this way and I'll steer you toward something you may not find in the BA. - H
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