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How to find good spring rolls

Spring roll means several different things: fresh Vietnamese rice paper rolls, crispy fried Vietnamese chả giò, Chinese spring rolls and American egg rolls. The good versions of each have one thing in common — they are made fresh.

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What separates a good one from a bad one

Fresh rolls rolled to order — Gỏi cuốn: rice paper with shrimp, pork, herbs and vermicelli. The rice paper should be soft and the herbs bright, not wilted.
A real peanut-hoisin dip — Thick, nutty, with chilli.
Chả giò that crackle — Fried rice-paper rolls, blistered and shatteringly crisp, served with lettuce and herbs to wrap.
Fried to order — Fried rolls go soft quickly; reheated ones are greasy.
Nước chấm made fresh — Fish sauce dip with lime, sugar, garlic and chilli.

What to order

Gỏi cuốn — Fresh shrimp and pork rolls.
Chả giò — Crispy fried rolls.
Bì cuốn — Shredded pork skin rolls.
Nem nướng cuốn — Grilled pork sausage rolls.
Bún with chả giò — Vermicelli bowl topped with fried rolls.

Where to find Spring rolls

Spring rolls is mostly found at Vietnamese restaurants, so that is where to look. Open listings put 6,938 of them across the US, and these are the cities and campuses with the most.

Cities with the most

San Jose, CA 193 Seattle, WA 132 Westminster, CA 129 Garden Grove, CA 128 San Francisco, CA 121 New York, NY 108 Houston, TX 103 Portland, OR 80

Campuses with the most within a mile

Seattle U 44 NYU 40 Pace University 27 Laney College 27 BMCC 26 Jefferson 25

A few to start with

Da Noodle — San Jose, CA
225 E Santa Clara St, San Jose
Pho Cyclo Cafe — Seattle, WA
999 3rd Ave #1, Seattle
Hoang Gia Cafe & Catering — Westminster, CA
14361 Beach Blvd #111, Westminster
Nuong Zone — Garden Grove, CA
12908 Main St, Garden Grove
Hello Sandwich and Noodle — San Francisco, CA
426 Larkin St, San Francisco
Hello Vietpho — New York, NY
63 Reade St, New York

Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.

How Savor Scout looks for it

The search reads for fresh rolls, rolled to order and crispy, and lets you say whether you want Vietnamese fresh rolls or fried ones, which are different dishes.

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Looking in a particular city?

Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.

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