There’s Wheat in an Egg Roll Wrapper? Sadly for a celiac house, wheat is in egg roll wrappers! One of the assumptions people tend to make with East Asian foods is that it contains only traditional East Asian ingredients. Even the people who work at these restaurants are shocked to find that wheat, a considered a Western and Middle-Eastern staple, is in many of their dishes. The truth is that wheat reached China about 4500 years ago and is found in many South and East Asian cultures and ingredients. Most infamously in the misleadingly named soy sauce, which usually has a wheat to soy ratio of 1:1 and not at all like the traditional recipe. We, too, once made the culturally ignorant assumption that rice is the only grain in East Asian foods. Most disappointingly, I thought that egg roll and wonton wrappers must be made from rice paper. Both in China and in Americanized Chinese food, wrappers usually comprise of wheat flour, egg and water. For what it’s worth, the transparent, chewy wrappers usually labeled as “spring rolls” in America, are usually rice. Well, even if I can’t order any egg rolls, I can make the egg roll filling […]
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