Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Ingredients

some lettuce
some coriander
2 oz cellophane noodles
1 lengths
1 lb pork
1 onion
2 tb tree ears
3 garlic
3 shallots
3 scallions
7 ounces crabmeat
1/2 ts black pepper
20 sheets rice papers
4 eggs
2 c peanut oil
80 spring rolls
1 filling near the curved side
2 cucumber

Instructions

person then adds 1 or 2 spring rolls to his bowl, sprinkles with the nuoc cham, and eats the spring rolls and vegetables together, using chopsticks or a fork. Additional carrot salad may be added to taste. Another very popular serving method calls for placing the vegetables on a lettuce leaf, adding the spring roll, and rolling it into a cylinder. Holding the cylinder with his fingers, each diner then dips it into his own small bowl of nuoc cham. NOTE: We have found that frying the spring rolls in peanut oil keeps them crisper than frying in any other oil. From "The Classic Cuisine of Vietnam", Bach Ngo and Gloria Zimmerman, Barron's, 1979.