Gỏi cuốn or known as cold salad roll is gaining more popularity in the city where I live now. Since it has been around the middle of last year, only a few days ago I got the chance to taste this salad wrapped in rice paper.
This cold salad is quite reasonable compared to many salads menu. For example, I ordered salad roll tempe which consisted of cabbage, lettuce, corn, carrot, and a few slices of tempe, it cost me around 2.5$ cheaper than Greek Salad from an upscale restaurants.
There’s only one place that sells this cold salad roll which is called Salad Roll Hoodi. I haven’t found any other places other than that. So, clearly they don’t have any competition nor can I compare the taste or even the price.
This salad has various vegetables wrapped in rice paper which has quite bland taste. So, to add more taste, you get to pick the salad dressing. There were various things to choose from and at that time, I was choosing mayo prawn.
It was about the 5th day since I was sick and I felt like I needed a good body cleanse. So, other than salad rolls, I also ordered their vegetable salad option.
Their salad box is basically the chopped version of their cold salad roll without the rice paper. It was certainly filling and a great meal if you’re dieting. As you can see in the picture, it consists of green lettuce, iceberg, red cabbage, carrot, corn, cucumber plus the protein of your choosing. In which case, I chose tempe again. This salad box also comes with dressing which I happen to also pick mayo prawn.
The taste of those two meals were so filling and refreshing. I felt great after supplying my body with greens. During my travels, I ate a bit poorly, often consisting of fried food. So, nourishing my body with greens was helping my recovery journey. If I could eat salad everyday, I would definitely enjoy this cold salad over greek salad since now I can’t have anything with cheese nor tomatoes.
Overall, this salad is great if you like a quick bite salad. It was filling too since there were more than two types of vegetables. So,this is clearly a value meal when it comes to healthy food option that's often too overpriced.
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