Lumpia, it is a delicious Filipino version of the egg roll. The Lumpia I am describing is the
"shu mai" version which consists of fried meat with various types of vegetables like carrots, celery, onion, and garlic. Lumpia can used as a side dish but my family uses it as a main dish.
As i grew up, my Mom would always cook her home made Lumpia on special occasions. she on she would always cook this lumpia whenever we had a party, reunions, or just at random times we she would feel like it. My mom really never made her lumpia very often, she would make it about 3 times a month. My mom got her recipe from our own family friend. My mom says she doesn't not intend to sell it and wants to keep the recipe in the family. A long time ago, when my mom would make a lot of lumpia for a big party, some of my aunties and uncles would help for the party, they would always come to our house and talk with my mom and dad and have fun, my mom and her sister would always be in the kitchen fixing up the ingredients and frying the lumpia, wrapping it, or make more meat for the lumpia. As for my dad and my uncles, they would get all the drinks and prepare the tent, tables and chairs. The reason why i enjoy it so much is because the memories it holds and the delicious flavor in my mouth. Also my brother agrees, he had the same memories as i have so we said "since i also grew up eating this lumpia, i also think it is delicious."
Lumpia, the way my mother makes it, we all eat it with vinegar, it amplifies the flavor, it has a crunchy shell, and as it crunches you taste the meat mixing with the vinegar as it flourishes in your mouth and it explodes with flavor as you chew it. With all the ingredients in the lumpia, frying it seals in the flavor and as you chew it just explodes as i said earlier, so describing it would be like a flavor bomb and as you insert it into your mouth it detonates on tongue with a flavor that'll leave you wanting more.
