Bo Bia Bia

Bo Bia is a type of fresh spring roll that my family loves to eat. You can buy it at a Vietnamese grocery store or bakery, but we like to make it at home in part because we can each eat like four to six rolls. Making Bo Bia is actually really simple. The ingredients are basic: Chinese sausage, green leaf lettuce, eggs, rice paper, basil, hoisin sauce, dried shrimp, jicama root (available at most Asian grocery stores).

Wash Your Greens!

Fry your scrambled eggs extra thin. Roll up a couple of the egg "sheets" and then cut it into slender strips.

Wash, shred and then sauté the jicama with fish sauce and dried shrimp.

Cut the Chinese sausage very thin diagonally.

Assemble! Lettuce, basil, jicama, chinese sausage, hoisin on top of your moistened rice paper.

These were pretty delicious. When you make things at home, you can put as many ingredients of your preference as you want which is especially a huge plus for me because I like my Bo Bia Bia with extra basil and jicama, light on the hoisin sauce. My only gripe? It is tedious as hell to make. Even if you are only the helper.