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Michiel 2005 club

Posted: 04 Jul 2014

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1/160 • f/4.5 • 48.0 mm • ISO 100 •

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loempia •
kraam •
spring roll •
dordrecht •
stall •
vietnamese •
nederland •
holland •
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Vietnamese spring rolls and snacks

Vietnamese spring rolls and snacks
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 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
Dutch words ending on a long vowel (such as loempia (spring roll)) get an apostrophe for the plural, so mr. Tran has the correct spelling.
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
Loempia is originally a Chinese word (潤餅) from the Min Nan dialect. From the Chinese it entered the Malay language and Indonesian. From there it was introduced in the Dutch language. We write it with a "oe", but in modern Indonesian it is written "lumpia". The oe is pronounced like "oo" in "moon".
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
Apparantly 潤餅 is pronounced "Lun Pia". In my Dutch dictionary it says that 潤 can also mean decorate and 餅 also pancake, so decorated pancake. Why the Vietnamese and Malay took over this word it doesn't say. Maybe Chinese from Fujian province settled in Vietnam and Malaysia and made the spring rolls.

Now you know that loempia isn't a nasty Vietnamese disease. You can buy loempia's at a lot of places, they are typically around €1 a piece.
9 years ago.

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