Tune into our next Live Talk for the semifinalist of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Mengling Chen!

Mengling Chen was a semi-finalist baker on The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 2 and recently guested on this year’s Holiday Special. You can watch Mengling’s appearance on The Great Canadian Baking Show on Netflix Canada and find her baking creations on Instagram at @mengbakes.

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I can hear the crunch just looking at them!

Single Serving I see.

Oh my I just got so hungry.... They look amazing.

😂

NO! Egg rolls are Chinese lumpia. Get it right.

I love lumpia.... you jurk /j

*blinks*

*would like to know your location*

I will eat every single one of those delicious damn things.

They look like cigars without enough tobacco

Ma pass me the banana ketchup, im going to town

A crunch you can see!!! Love to dunk those into some sweet chili sauce!

I'm 53. I can't remember what I did last Tuesday, but in 7th grade Vallerie Villar at Wheeler Elementary School on Oahu and I shared a math class. I was head over heels for her. I was brimming with 10 year old's hormones, and Romeo and Juliet had nothing on the love I had for this girl - forget the fact we'd never spoken. One day the HomeEc teacher had us make lumpia. I'd found my second love and ate 2 of the 3 pieces we'd each made.

I saved the 3rd for the next class, and Vallerie sat to my right. I worked up the courage to say hi to her after months and made my offering a dead pinky-finger looking lumpia and she accepted the gift, ate it and gave me a 'thanks'. And that's it. Never spoke to me again.

I still love lumpia though.

Hahaha kids can be awkward, great story, at least you had the courage to say hi.

I haven’t had those in many years. How I miss them!

Yes!

Some of the best comfort food to ever exist.

Had a co-worker that would make a giant batch for all the carriers in our post office. They would be gone in less than an hour.

Could you share your recipe? 🙏

If you had offered her either jufran (banana ketchup), sweet chili sauce, or datu puti spiced vinegar then she would probably had been your to this day.

They all look so perfect wow

Masarap!

Does the filling get soaked with oil?

2018 Oahu. Our guide takes us to some insanely priced fruit stands, and they had lumpias stuffed with bananas. First time tasting this tasty treat.

No the end gets sealed pretty quickly.

Lmao

1st come 1st served! haha

Hey so I actually made these the lazy way.

Ingredients

Salad mix that had green and red cabbage, carrots, and green onions.

1 egg

1 lb of ground beef. (You can substitute using chicken, turkey ground pork, or even fish. You can also combine 1/2 pork and 1/2 beef).

Seasoning - I used Garlic Powder, Smoke Paprika, Salt, and Pepper

Wrapping Paper This is the one I use

Frying Oil

Eggwash

Instructions.

Chop all the vegetables (only vegetables) into small pieces, I recommend a food processor but you can do it by hand. You don't want to bite big chunks of vegetables so make them as small as possible.

Mixed the vegetable, egg, ground meat, and seasoning in a bowl. This is the before and after.

Now take the meat and lay it on the wrapper and roll it. Theres multiple ways of doing this and this is the tedious part but here's a link to wrap it faster.

Make sure to wrap it tight, avoid air bubbles, and make sure the ends are even because that part of the wrap will get burnt easily.

Use the eggwash to seal the end of the wrapper so it sticks.

Lay it all in a baking sheet/pan and freeze it for about 10-15 minutes. You dont want it to be frozen but just hard enough that its not soggy.

Cut it into 3 bite-size pieces.

Fry the lumpia in oil in medium heat in at least a medium-sized pot, make sure to do only 4-5 at a time so that it doesn't crowd. Fry them for about 4-5 minutes until golden brown. Then let it rest in a rack or a towel to remove oil.

Enjoy!.

Here's also a traditional recipe if you want it

I believe you can buy them prepackaged in your local Asian mart.

Even sum Mang Tomas liver sauce.

Thats called turon! Its usually plantains inside.

Wow that was incredibly detailed wasn't expecting that thank you! ❤

I had a friend from Guam that always made these for me. These look delicious and I am officially jealous.

Is the meat cooked when you mix it with the other ingredients?

No the meat is raw when you mix it and lay it on the wrapper, it gets cooked once you fry it.