Wallum Sum

Ever since I’ve moved in to Em’s apartment, she has been referring to me as some kind of rice paper roll making ninja, as if I alone hold the power to make them.  They are in fact, piss easy to make, super healthy and stress free when feeding other people because they do all the work.  On Friday I finally got around to feeding them to Em as I have been promising for months, the way I’ve grown up doing them at home.  Finely cut up a shit load of vegetables- preferably raw and crunchy- you must have at the very least fresh bean shoots, some avocado and plenty of spring onion sliced length ways and marinated in fish sauce and a tiny bit of chilli powder.  Cook some meat if you’re not a vegetarian- preferably pork. Put a bowl of hot water on the table to prepare the rice paper one at a time, to order.  Make some sauce- fish sauce, lemon or lime juice, a bit of sweet chilli sauce and if you have it- a smidge of tinned pineapple juice.  Slap it on the table.  Everyone uses clean hands and chopsticks to create their own roll and voila.  Super easy lunch- crunchy, fresh and satisfying.  So good ended up eating it again this arvo and invited my bro around who almost singlehandedly ate everything on the table.  Also, before you get started everything looks so pretty it actually looks like it took effort.  May take a photo next time so people can appreciate.     

‘Wallum Sum’ translated directly means ‘Vietnamese wrap’, so while it can’t be strictly classifed as Korean, is pretty indicative of how easy Korean food is to prepare sometimes.  Korean ’sum’- wrap is pretty much the same thing but with cooked cabbage leaves, lettuce or sesame leaves with different ingredients and sauces.  Fucking easy and always good.