Chinese cheesesteak roll

[mamster]

This may be my first post on Pennsylvania. Hi! Sorry if this has been covered before, but I figured it would be of interest:

Chinese Philadelphia Food

[mrbigjas]

Nice. I wonder where the place is.

[Carlovski]

That's just evil.

Can see the potential for variations (Just like the Scottish penchant for fryin things in Batter). Pastrami Spring roll? Kosher hot dog spring roll? Pulled pork Spring roll?

[Mayhaw Man]

Pulled pork Spring roll?

I could eat a few of those. They sound delicious.

[cinghiale]

At last spring's Restaurant Row food fair along Walnut Street, I tried a cheesesteak springroll from Davio's. It was quite good.

Edited May 7, 2004 by cinghiale (log)

[tastykimmie]

the chinese restaurant in my neighborhood serves these. they are DELICIOUS!!!

[achevres]

This may be my first post on Pennsylvania. Hi! Sorry if this has been covered before, but I figured it would be of interest:

Chinese Philadelphia Food

Please, what is the name and where is it???

[gabe]

They are on the menu at Novelty on 3rd St.

[Andrew Fenton]

I had them as an hors d'oeuvre at a wedding reception at Davio's last year. They were... disturbingly good.

[skchai]

Reminds me of "chico roll" (sp?) the strange Australian hybrid of the meat pie and the spring roll. . .

[Holly Moore]

Enough with tales of Davio and Novelty.

Are there any chinese cuisine restaurants serving these?

[Mark Liberman]

If you go back to the original post, you'll see that it's been updated with details about the source of the pictured food:

"The place is called Evergreen and is located at 4726 Spruce Street. The telephone number is: 215-476-0371. Cheese steak rolls are only $1.20."

[Holly Moore]

I'm hoping they're open tomorrow, Sunday, cause I am there.

Thanks for the update, Mark.

[spikemom]

I tried one of these yesterday. Wish I could be more enthusiastic.

The exterior eggroll wrapper was a nice light gold, slightly crisp, tough on the ends where it was folded. (I broke it in half to get to the heart of the matter.) Since it was straight from the fryer, I had to wait four or five minutes for it to cool down enough to eat comfortably.

The filling was truly disappointing. The ground beef (rather than shredded) was studded with many, many tiny nuggets of chewy cartilage. Seasoning was good (seemed to be simple salt and pepper), and there were slices of sauteed onion in the mix.

A thin, translucent layer of "cheese product" between the meat and the wrapper never melted, even though the filling was scalding.

So that's the cheese steak roll. I'll leave it to someone else to report on the fried chicken gizzards ($2 a pint, $3.90 a quart).

[spikemom]

Holly,

The menu says Evergreen is open noon to midnight on Sunday. No tables--takeout only.

[PhilaFoodie]

Just call it Jewish Christmas... Oi!

Edited May 23, 2004 by PhilaFoodie (log)

[Rachel Perlow]

That picture reminded me of the deep fried Po'Boy served at Jacques-Imo's in New Orleans.

[Holly Moore]

Made it to Evergreen Chinese American Restaurant today. Ordered two cheesesteak egg rolls.

I had a better experience than spikemom. Yes, ground beef instead of sliced rib eye, And not CheezWhiz. But no gristle in mine. A little bit of lettuce or cabbage and the ground beef and what I'm guessing is processed american. $1.20 each. Heck of a deal.

Tried one plain and one with the traditional condiments - hot mustard and sweet sauce. Preferred plain. And discounting the egg roll crunch, pretty much tasted like a cheesesteak.