Hey folks, Kevin here. The name of the restaurant in Chicago with the amazing egg rolls is Chef's Special Cocktail Bar. Do you have a favorite egg roll, and if so, where? I'd love to know. --kevin
Where I grew up - a suburb of Chicago, about 45-60 min south - they add a bit of peanut butter to the mix! Apparently something started by Chicago and Pittsburgh (I think (edit: it's Philadelphia) restaurants! Makes a HUGE difference and it's hard to find anything else like it! I never knew what it was that made them special til it was pointed out as an allergy and it clicked. Makes sense, too - peanuts, sugar, and oil! I think I've only found one recipe in a cookbook out there to use it. Gotta call that restaurant to see if they'd give me the recipe, I miss them so much! Great article in the Chicago Tribune about it.
Excellent video with clear explanations! However, the love and respect that this father & son duo have for each other is wonderful...it truly touches my heart!
I've known my wife for almost 45 years, and she wouldn't eat egg rolls. Great, two for me.. Within the last 6 months, she tried one and now she loves them. Sometimes we'll stop at a random Chinese restaurant while on a Sunday drive and get a couple for snacks. Now when we order Chinese, she orders extras for the next day. Strange times.
Those egg rolls look so delicious! My favorite way to eat egg rolls is with sweet & sour sauce and Chinese mustard. I love how spicy the mustard is but mixed with the sweet & sour sauce it calms it down a bit.
Sweet chili sauce is my favorite to dip - my husband combines white vinegar and minced garlic! That really packs a punch! I never get takeout egg rolls anymore! Have been making them for years at home! Will be trying your recipe Kevin! So sweet that your father is proud of you - and tells you so! =]
I've made these a few times already, and I have a couple of tips For the wrappers: Use "TYJ Spring Roll Pastry" wrappers from Spring Home. They're in the frozen section. It's quite a bit of time and effort to make the filling, so make a double batch. Use 1/3 cup instead of 1/4 cup for bigger, plumper egg rolls Yes, you can make them in the air fryer, but they're kind of dry. 400 deg for 20 min. If making to freeze, fry them in oil for 3 min, let them cool, then freeze. They'll be perfect for the air fryer, since they're nice and oiled up.
But then you'd be making spring rolls, and not American egg rolls. Admittedly Chinese spring rolls are much better than American egg rolls though, so no doubt it's an improvement
The use of shrimp and ground pork is the base for a Filipino Spring roll, what we call in the Philippines “Lumpia Shanghai”. Lumpia is basically Amoy, Fujianese inspired dish that was introduced by Chinese workers / traders from the time our country was under Spanish Colonization. It has been voted one of the world best type of Spring Roll and is eaten traditionally with a garlic / soy sauce infused sweet and sour sauce. It is a staple on the Filipino table for big celebrations and parties.
There was a restaurant near me called Royal Chopstix that sadly changed their menu. They used to have the biggest, best-tasting eggrolls that I have ever eaten in my life! They were just like these, only even larger and without the shrimp. They also had the same amazing spicy/hot mustard. It was divine!!! Watching this brought back that good memory. Thank you. ❤
@@travis5481 Carrot Cake Jam, is a Ball book recipe for hot water bath canning, no pressure cooker needed. It's exactly the sweet carrot, raisin jam without any cake.
My Mom’s are my favorite..celery onions bean sprouts chicken shrimp cha Siu pork and dried shitake mushrooms…all cooked before rolling and frying. My Dad would mix up the hot mustard.. He would grill the Char Siu on a charcoal BBQ after marinating for 3 days. Your version looks like an interesting Americanized Chef version, which would be good for everyday cooking. Enjoy your efforts to share Chinese cooking.
I love the Pangs! I appreciate that they're frying in the wok but as they pointed out maintining the temperature can be a pain. For that reason I recommend using a small electric fryer, or at the least maybe just doing three at a time.
I normally do 3 at a time. 6 at a time seems like it would make the oil cool too much, especially if you're making from frozen. I do all my deep frying in a sauce pan in small batches.
@@Wythaneye Agree. The more quantity, the faster the oil cools. My mom would fry in a saucepan and would do 3 at a time. This way, the oil splatters on the inside of the pan and of course, the oil doesn't cool fast. It took a longer time tho.
Mr Kevin and Dad, I really enjoyed hearing you both as your demonstration in preparing Asian recipes. The respect and honor you share with your father is beautiful as a good example for us all. I love cooking with my wife sometimes children. I will make time in near future to prepare these egg rolls 😋. Thank you for your time as recipes. 😊 with all due respect. 😔
I make something similar, but cook the pork ahead of time with some fresh ginger, dont add sugar, use more oyster sauce and add a little peanut butter. No lard, no noodles, mung bean sprouts, a little onion. I cant find grocery store hot mustard that I like, so I have been using candied halapeno peppers instead. I love egg rolls!
I HAVEN'T had a good egg roll in forever!!😭 Every restaurant I've tried??🤨 It's NOTHING BUT the wrapper with maybe a HALF to max a TEASPOON OF filling!!!😳 I, literally, end up just UNwrapping them and THAT goes to my dogs!!🙌 I only get the ridiculous tiny, tasteless, itty bitty nub of filling!!😒 AND at $2 a piece??!?🤨 NO thank you!!!👎 But I'm definitely going to try THIS recipe and just make at home myself!!🙌 Thank you guys for posting this and educating ALL OF us!!!🙌❤ It's such a joy to watch you two in action!!!🙌😂❤ Such a hoot!!! 🤣👍😊❤️❤️❤️
Made these tonight. I was very glad for the video showing how to fold/roll them up. They were absolutely amazing, that filling just pops, even without dipping it in anything, but it hold up against sweet and sour or hoisin. These will definitely make it onto the meal rotation here.
I've made 2 batches now. Absolutely amazing. When I do the final mix of the meat, veggies, and noodles it releases an aroma straight from heaven. Or China. Either way, you'll know you've got something amazing coming together.
"Duck sauce" orangish in color, sweet and slightly vinegary, gelatinous which, on a hot/warm egg roll spreads itself thin and into crust covering. Enjoyed dad-son dynamic, method discussion and general repartee.🎉😊❤
Amazing video as usual, as an American in Europe who misses American Chinese food this is a lifesaver. One request: is it possible for you to share the weights of at least the dry ingredients?
Hey guys, 'Made with Lau' here. These videos are far superior because Kevin actually allows his father to splurge on an extra $1.59 on each recipe. They never mention the cost of anything on these videos. Amazing! Gotta log out right now, daddy Lau is telling me I need to hurry and repurpose this used cooking oil!
Hey guys, I love your cooking segments together. Egg rolls look great. You make it look almost easy. I’ve made egg rolls before with varying success, so I’m anxious to try your recipe. I’m shocked, though, that no one has mentioned Pailin’s Kitchen recipe for Thai Sweet Chile/Chili Sauce from about 5 years ago. I always make this when our farmer’s market has red chiles, and I always keep it in the fridge for anytime I need an Asian dipping sauce. It lasts forever in a jar in the fridge. I love spicy mustard that knocks your socks off too, but try Pailin’s simple recipe if you love sweet and sour! (Is it wrong to dip Chinese/American egg rolls in a Thai sauce?)
Growing up in Boston, egg rolls were filled with char siu rather than ground pork, and celery was used in place of of cabbage. Gave them an entirely different flavor profile. Either way they were delicious
Thanks guys. This looks like a perfect recipe for American style egg rolls. I saw Jeffery wince at the end when Kevin mixed everything back in the big mixing machine. I think he wanted that bowl and a wooden spoon to do a quick easy mix job. Mixers are nice but not everybody has one. I wonder what Mom thinks of American egg rolls?
In Australia we have spring rolls. Whenever I used to hear people mention egg rolls on American TV shows, I thought they were talking about some sort of bread roll.😂 Great video!
You two are awesome! Love your videos. My favorite sauce for egg rolls is the duck sauce you find in the northeast. I live in California and we don't have it out here. Would love it if you did a short video on making that and the mustard. My favorite egg rolls came from 2 restaurants by were I grew up...Hong Luck in Levittown, PA and China Moon in Bensalem, PA
Always nice when Dad gives his approval. Those egg rolls look absolutely delicious. We’re you using Colman’s mustard? I volunteer if you ever want taste testers to back up your Dad’s evaluation. Cooks magazine just did a review of fish sauce. Would you do a review of soy sauce and/or other Chinese sauces?
I’ll definitely try this recipe! It’s like a dumpling filling inside an egg roll wrapper! Yum! The dipping sauce we use in the northeast US is duck sauce and hot yellow mustard like the stuff that you’re using
The Ferry Building in San Francisco has the Imperial Tea House. They have fantastic egg rolls. I like them with either hot or sweet chili dipping sauces depending on my mood or a bit of both back and forth. Yum.
Hi, @kevinpang4745. I love your videos with dad! I'm making these egg rolls today, and I'm wondering if you can recommend an alternative to the Kitchenaid stand mixer as I don't have one at this time =-).
Hey folks, Kevin here. The name of the restaurant in Chicago with the amazing egg rolls is Chef's Special Cocktail Bar. Do you have a favorite egg roll, and if so, where? I'd love to know. --kevin
I've had some good egg rolls over the years but yours look amazing. I would love to get your and your father's take on War Shu Gai.
I like an egg roll that is wrapped in rice paper or a an Vietnamese egg roll that has like a web/noodle wrapper
Where I grew up - a suburb of Chicago, about 45-60 min south - they add a bit of peanut butter to the mix! Apparently something started by Chicago and Pittsburgh (I think (edit: it's Philadelphia) restaurants! Makes a HUGE difference and it's hard to find anything else like it! I never knew what it was that made them special til it was pointed out as an allergy and it clicked. Makes sense, too - peanuts, sugar, and oil! I think I've only found one recipe in a cookbook out there to use it. Gotta call that restaurant to see if they'd give me the recipe, I miss them so much! Great article in the Chicago Tribune about it.
Don Mee's Restaurant in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
China Kitchen in Cleveland Ohio has the best egg rolls I've ever had. 30+ years and I still haven't found an equal.
Food looks great but the relationship with you two is perfection
Excellent video with clear explanations! However, the love and respect that this father & son duo have for each other is wonderful...it truly touches my heart!
I've known my wife for almost 45 years, and she wouldn't eat egg rolls. Great, two for me.. Within the last 6 months, she tried one and now she loves them. Sometimes we'll stop at a random Chinese restaurant while on a Sunday drive and get a couple for snacks. Now when we order Chinese, she orders extras for the next day. Strange times.
Those egg rolls look so delicious! My favorite way to eat egg rolls is with sweet & sour sauce and Chinese mustard. I love how spicy the mustard is but mixed with the sweet & sour sauce it calms it down a bit.
Great video! Thank you ! I LOVE egg rolls just like that ! Very crispy ! Hello from Pennsylvania
Lol, I love these two.
I do too!
Kevin and Jeffrey are such a treasure. Thanks for everything you do! I love making your recipes!
Oh my! I really love these guys. Best thing on this channel.
It took me back to my early teen years when I’d help my stepdad roll these. His cooking was the best! ♥️🙏🏻♥️
Sweet chili sauce is my favorite to dip - my husband combines white vinegar and minced garlic! That really packs a punch! I never get takeout egg rolls anymore! Have been making them for years at home! Will be trying your recipe Kevin! So sweet that your father is proud of you - and tells you so! =]
I've made these a few times already, and I have a couple of tips
For the wrappers: Use "TYJ Spring Roll Pastry" wrappers from Spring Home. They're in the frozen section.
It's quite a bit of time and effort to make the filling, so make a double batch.
Use 1/3 cup instead of 1/4 cup for bigger, plumper egg rolls
Yes, you can make them in the air fryer, but they're kind of dry. 400 deg for 20 min.
If making to freeze, fry them in oil for 3 min, let them cool, then freeze. They'll be perfect for the air fryer, since they're nice and oiled up.
But then you'd be making spring rolls, and not American egg rolls. Admittedly Chinese spring rolls are much better than American egg rolls though, so no doubt it's an improvement
Brilliant air fryer hack!
The use of shrimp and ground pork is the base for a Filipino Spring roll, what we call in the Philippines “Lumpia Shanghai”. Lumpia is basically Amoy, Fujianese inspired dish that was introduced by Chinese workers / traders from the time our country was under Spanish Colonization. It has been voted one of the world best type of Spring Roll and is eaten traditionally with a garlic / soy sauce infused sweet and sour sauce. It is a staple on the Filipino table for big celebrations and parties.
NOT FILIPINO.
Kaya nga SHANGHAI, dba??? Ugh. Filipino stealing all chinese food.
My Favorite Dipping Sauce for Egg Rolls Is Sweet & Sour Sauce, & Got Mustard Sauce! Yum🥰
There was a restaurant near me called Royal Chopstix that sadly changed their menu. They used to have the biggest, best-tasting eggrolls that I have ever eaten in my life! They were just like these, only even larger and without the shrimp. They also had the same amazing spicy/hot mustard. It was divine!!! Watching this brought back that good memory. Thank you. ❤
Our dipping sauce is usually one of our fruit jams (especially Plum, Peach, Apricot) with of bit of rice vinegar, or our carrot cake jam.
Wait, what is carrot cake jam? 😮
@@travis5481 Carrot Cake Jam, is a Ball book recipe for hot water bath canning, no pressure cooker needed. It's exactly the sweet carrot, raisin jam without any cake.
im gonna try this
@@travis5481 a great recipe from the BALL canning book
Thanks for this! I really enjoy the relationship between the two of you.
Great video. You and your dad have an endearing relationship.With your voice you could be some kind of broadcaster! Very smooth
Love the family relationship. Dad is so sweet ❤
Thank You.Kevin & Dad..another recipe ❤❤GBU
That intro was priceless!
Excellent teaching!!!
I come here for the father-son feel goods, and stay for the recipes!❤
I never thought of adding lard to enhance the texture! Nice tips
You literally read my mind! I searched for egg rolls from Hunger Pangs about 45 minutes ago!
Thank you for having Asian people talking about Asian food.
Great video!
I mix the hot mustard into sweet and sour sauce and then dip. Yum
My Mom’s are my favorite..celery onions bean sprouts chicken shrimp cha Siu pork and dried shitake mushrooms…all cooked before rolling and frying. My Dad would mix up the hot mustard.. He would grill the Char Siu on a charcoal BBQ after marinating for 3 days. Your version looks like an interesting Americanized Chef version, which would be good for everyday cooking. Enjoy your efforts to share Chinese cooking.
Love watching you guys! How endearing when you call him “ Pops” ! Recipes always so easy and appetizing!
so good! thanks Jeffrey, Kevin, and the whole ATK crew
I just LOVE watching you two! Thank you for your videos.
Best egg roll video on the internet. Thanks guys.
My dipping sauce of choice is Thai chili sauce or home made duck sauce and Chinese mustard.
This was informative and entertaining. The love and admiration between this father and son really made it a joy to watch.
I love the Pangs! I appreciate that they're frying in the wok but as they pointed out maintining the temperature can be a pain. For that reason I recommend using a small electric fryer, or at the least maybe just doing three at a time.
Recipe sounds good. Will most likely try. 😊 Father, Son combo make things look so easy. ❤💚💜🧡💛💙
I normally do 3 at a time. 6 at a time seems like it would make the oil cool too much, especially if you're making from frozen. I do all my deep frying in a sauce pan in small batches.
@@Wythaneye Agree. The more quantity, the faster the oil cools. My mom would fry in a saucepan and would do 3 at a time. This way, the oil splatters on the inside of the pan and of course, the oil doesn't cool fast. It took a longer time tho.
Kevin Pang is a Chicago food OG, and now we learn he is incredible on camera. Love to see it!
I just love watching you and your dad!
Another amazing Hunger Pangs production! It’s time the Pangs open their own restaurant!
Mr Kevin and Dad, I really enjoyed hearing you both as your demonstration in preparing Asian recipes. The respect and honor you share with your father is beautiful as a good example for us all. I love cooking with my wife sometimes children. I will make time in near future to prepare these egg rolls 😋. Thank you for your time as recipes. 😊 with all due respect. 😔
I enjoyed this!!! Bravo. 🖤
I make something similar, but cook the pork ahead of time with some fresh ginger, dont add sugar, use more oyster sauce and add a little peanut butter. No lard, no noodles, mung bean sprouts, a little onion. I cant find grocery store hot mustard that I like, so I have been using candied halapeno peppers instead. I love egg rolls!
Go online and find the powdered stuff. It's what all the Chinese restaurants use for hot mustard! Super cheap too. -kevin
I love their relationship, Father/son. They make a great team. 😊 egg rolls look delicious ❤
I HAVEN'T had a good egg roll in forever!!😭 Every restaurant I've tried??🤨 It's NOTHING BUT the wrapper with maybe a HALF to max a TEASPOON OF filling!!!😳 I, literally, end up just UNwrapping them and THAT goes to my dogs!!🙌 I only get the ridiculous tiny, tasteless, itty bitty nub of filling!!😒 AND at $2 a piece??!?🤨 NO thank you!!!👎 But I'm definitely going to try THIS recipe and just make at home myself!!🙌 Thank you guys for posting this and educating ALL OF us!!!🙌❤ It's such a joy to watch you two in action!!!🙌😂❤ Such a hoot!!! 🤣👍😊❤️❤️❤️
For me, I really love and enjoy the Vietnamese type/style made Fish Sauce for dipping.
👏🏻👏🏻 glad father n son are back baby!!!!!! These two should be on EVERY DAY OR WK. I love sweet spicy sauce w my egg rolls. Yum recipe.
Thank you for sharing ❤😊
My favorite to dip is duck sauce. I also add a tiny drop of Worcestershire sauce. Tastes great
Great vid. "Kevin's Dad😊" really knows his stuff!
Excited for the cookbook 🙌
I am inspired to make this recipe! Thanks, Pangs.
You guys are the best thing to happen to ATK!
So sweet these two!!!! 🥢💕
thank you for the episode.. I love hunger Pangs
Excellent video & recipe... I very much enjoy watching The Pangs... please more video's featuring them!
Thank you so much!
Great video
Thank you gentlemen. I can’t wait to give it a go soon.
Made these tonight. I was very glad for the video showing how to fold/roll them up. They were absolutely amazing, that filling just pops, even without dipping it in anything, but it hold up against sweet and sour or hoisin. These will definitely make it onto the meal rotation here.
Looks delicious
I love all your videos.Looks yummy and perfect.
I think that eggroll is best with sweet and sour sauce
I drooled on my shirt watching this- do I send the dry cleaning bill to ATK or to Kevin?
I've made 2 batches now. Absolutely amazing. When I do the final mix of the meat, veggies, and noodles it releases an aroma straight from heaven. Or China. Either way, you'll know you've got something amazing coming together.
"Duck sauce" orangish in color, sweet and slightly vinegary, gelatinous which, on a hot/warm egg roll spreads itself thin and into crust covering. Enjoyed dad-son dynamic, method discussion and general repartee.🎉😊❤
Sweet and sour sauce made with pineapple juice is my favorite
wow can. hardly wait for all these great recipes.
These eggs rolls look amazing!
Just WOW! I need to try this. Awesome!
I LOVE this series
They make such a great team; I love watching their clips.
Amazing video as usual, as an American in Europe who misses American Chinese food this is a lifesaver. One request: is it possible for you to share the weights of at least the dry ingredients?
Oh my gosh I adore these 2!! :)
Hey guys, 'Made with Lau' here. These videos are far superior because Kevin actually allows his father to splurge on an extra $1.59 on each recipe. They never mention the cost of anything on these videos. Amazing! Gotta log out right now, daddy Lau is telling me I need to hurry and repurpose this used cooking oil!
Hey guys, I love your cooking segments together. Egg rolls look great. You make it look almost easy. I’ve made egg rolls before with varying success, so I’m anxious to try your recipe. I’m shocked, though, that no one has mentioned Pailin’s Kitchen recipe for Thai Sweet Chile/Chili Sauce from about 5 years ago. I always make this when our farmer’s market has red chiles, and I always keep it in the fridge for anytime I need an Asian dipping sauce. It lasts forever in a jar in the fridge. I love spicy mustard that knocks your socks off too, but try Pailin’s simple recipe if you love sweet and sour! (Is it wrong to dip Chinese/American egg rolls in a Thai sauce?)
Growing up in Boston, egg rolls were filled with char siu rather than ground pork, and celery was used in place of of cabbage. Gave them an entirely different flavor profile. Either way they were delicious
Hunger pangs is a great series
I really enjoy these two!
Looks great!😊
Thanks guys. This looks like a perfect recipe for American style egg rolls.
I saw Jeffery wince at the end when Kevin mixed everything back in the big mixing machine. I think he wanted that bowl and a wooden spoon to do a quick easy mix job. Mixers are nice but not everybody has one.
I wonder what Mom thinks of American egg rolls?
Love Hunger Pangs! ❤
Fabulous instructions! I love eggrolls! 😊🩵
Excellent video gentlemen! I agree the pork fat gives so much flavor. I am going to make your recipe, THANK YOU!!!
I'm gonna try this recipe. Usually i didn't use noodles with my spring rolls. Now, I wanna try with noodles and eggrolls sheets. Thanks!! 😘👌
I love them all. Haven’t had a bad one yet. I did make some pretty good homemade ones a few times. I like to dip them in plum sauce or soy sauce.
Never liked spring rolls too tiny. But them chinese chimichangas are the best! Great video..
In Australia we have spring rolls. Whenever I used to hear people mention egg rolls on American TV shows, I thought they were talking about some sort of bread roll.😂 Great video!
You two are awesome! Love your videos. My favorite sauce for egg rolls is the duck sauce you find in the northeast. I live in California and we don't have it out here. Would love it if you did a short video on making that and the mustard. My favorite egg rolls came from 2 restaurants by were I grew up...Hong Luck in Levittown, PA and China Moon in Bensalem, PA
Hey homey!
Looks amazing!
Always nice when Dad gives his approval. Those egg rolls look absolutely delicious. We’re you using Colman’s mustard?
I volunteer if you ever want taste testers to back up your Dad’s evaluation.
Cooks magazine just did a review of fish sauce. Would you do a review of soy sauce and/or other Chinese sauces?
Those look delicious!
I’ll definitely try this recipe! It’s like a dumpling filling inside an egg roll wrapper! Yum! The dipping sauce we use in the northeast US is duck sauce and hot yellow mustard like the stuff that you’re using
I love watching them ❤
Great video, thanks for that recipe. As for my prefered dipping sauce, it’s Wyler’s Apricot Preserves and white vinegar.
The Ferry Building in San Francisco has the Imperial Tea House. They have fantastic egg rolls. I like them with either hot or sweet chili dipping sauces depending on my mood or a bit of both back and forth. Yum.
My fav dipping sauce for egg rolls is Duck sauce. I wish there were more videos on how to make the Duck sauce 😆
Such wonderful helpnon this channel ❤️ 😍
Great video. Can’t wait to try making my own egg rolls.
In the past I think that test kitchen hosts were informative and a bit boring. These guys are genuine and entertaining.
Looks so delicious and beautiful presentation!!!❤😅
This yellow cake with daisies looks great. You're making progress. 🎉 Keep it up.😊
GREAT TUTURIOL, LOVE ASIAN FOOD, THANK YOU!
Hi, @kevinpang4745. I love your videos with dad! I'm making these egg rolls today, and I'm wondering if you can recommend an alternative to the Kitchenaid stand mixer as I don't have one at this time =-).