> *has no idea* Wanton soup? I thought wantons were little roll thingies with stuff in em LOL!

No, those are Spring rolls. They're translucent and they look like little logs. Egg rolls are those awful deep-fried, pillow-shaped atrocities stuffed with coleslaw cabbage and ground pork, and look like they're covered in fried warts. Yuck.

I'm a little dismayed that the final "best Chinese-food soup" tallied for the reader poll was wonton soup. Dismayed, because I suspect few people have ever had anything other than the *canned version* that's usually served in buffet-style Chinese restaurants. The name wonton means "swallowing clouds," and real wonton is indeed heavenly. They're supposed to contain pork, shrimp, spring onions, shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots; so each wonton is a totally tasty, crunchy AND velvety smooth, mouth-watering little morsel. *Drool* I feel an urge to have some right now, if it weren't for the hours of slave labour required to make a few hundred of them (which can all disappear within 8 minutes in a yummy slurp and a gulp).