Maggie B: "My favorite still-available egg roll is from House of Wah Sun on Lincoln Avenue (by Montrose)."īarbara W.: " Chef's Special Cocktail Bar in Bucktown. 👏 Chicago readers also had some great suggestions:
They also make a crispy, fried vegetarian option with a sweet, tangy dipping sauce.With two kinds of egg rolls on the menu, their signature is the Nems Imperial Egg Rolls made in fried rice paper with pork, mushroom, lettuce, herbs and nuoc cham.Justin's pick: Nobody can beat the egg rolls at House of Eng, but I'll go with the Vietnamese egg rolls at Saigon Sisters. Not quite as good as the old Eng family egg rolls but still pretty tasty.Įgg rolls from Saigon Sisters on Lake Street.
I recently crunched into a fine version filled with peanut butter-scented cabbage and tiny shrimps. But 35 years after its closing - and the closing of so many classic old school joints - I reach for the egg rolls at Chicago's longest continuously running Chinese restaurant, The Orange Garden on Irving Park. Monica's pick: I would pick the egg rolls from the old House of Eng in Hyde Park if it were still around. In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month, we're sharing our favorite versions around the city for this week's Food Fight. The first mention of the egg roll we found in the Chicago Tribune came in a 1943 ad for Monica's great grandfather's restaurant, Hoe Sai Gai, which sold them for 75 cents. What many of us know as a "Chinese" egg roll was actually invented in New York City back in the 1930s.
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