Cassava Net Spring Rolls

Sorry for my long absence. I've been... busy... work, family wedding, moving, it's all been keeping me from posting. But, on the plus side, I have a lot of Dim Sum to show you.

These are K Fat Inc. Pandang Purple Cassava Net Spring Roll. Bought from the Kam Man frozen. We traditionally cook these in the toaster oven to get that pleasant crispness without frying. Generally, I love net rolls, but they do tend to be quite flaky so you get threads everywhere. I think deep frying them would make the net threads stick together a little better. Still, I really enjoy the texture. The cassava filling is sweet, but not overly so. It's the kind of sweet that I tend to pair with salty sauce, usually vegetarian oyster sauce. The cassava filling is very evenly pasty. The paste remains firm at temperature, but not so firm that you can't mop up a few fallen net flakes with it. Overall, I like these rolls. I think I slightly prefer the small versions of these, which I usually intentionally cook to over-done, in which the cassava is less prominent. But, I like the cassava!

Score: 3.5/5 - A lovely simple roll with a flakey outside, sweet inside.

Vegetable Spring Rolls

These K Fat Inc. Vegetable Spring Rolls Cha Gio Chay are also from the Kam Man frozen aisle. These are still not "restaurant size" spring rolls, but they're getting close. The wrapper is a traditional thin flour wrapper, doubled over. The filling has a little bit of crunch from the veggies, which include jicama and carrots, but the pieces of veggie are thoroughly cooked. The pieces are larger, but not large enough that you get strings hanging out between bites. Again, I find myself requiring sauce for these. Even baking these in the toaster oven, these still get a slightly oily exterior. The claim on the package that these spring rolls are 16 calories each puzzles me. I wonder if that could possibly be true?

Score: 3/5 - Just average spring rolls. We will definitely keep buying them because Ross likes them in more of a 4/5 way.