The History : Lumpia / Loenpia Semarang

Lumpia Semarang (or loenpia semarang) is a kind of food rollade containing bamboo shoots, eggs, and chicken or shrimp.
The taste of lumpia Semarang is a fusion between Chinese and Indonesian flavors because it was first made by a Chinese descent who is married to an Indonesian and settled in Semarang, Central Java. The food started in Semarang sold and is known as the Games GANEFO held during the reign of President Soekarno.

Wiki said :
Lunpia or sometimes spelled as lunpia (Hanzi: 潤 餅 / 润 饼, OJP: Lun-piáⁿ, hanyu pinyin: Run bǐng, English: long pia) is a kind of traditional Chinese snacks. Said spring rolls came from the Hokkien dialect pronunciation runbing in the dialect of the North. And in Khek language or Hakka, Lumpia called Pokppya (pokpia).
The spring rolls consist of a thin sheet of wheat flour is used as a wrapper fields generally are bamboo shoots, eggs, fresh vegetables, meat, or seafood.
In Indonesia, known as typical snacks lumpia Semarang with the procedures of manufacture and materials that have been adapted to local traditions.

Today, there are six types of spring rolls semarang with a different taste. The first stream of Gang Lombok (Siem Swie Kiem), a second stream of Jalan Pemuda (deceased Siem Swie Hie), and the third stream of Jalan Mataram (late Siem Hwa Nio). The third stream is derived from a family of Siem Gwan Sing-Tjoa Po Nio which is law and only daughter of the creator of lumpia Semarang, Tjoa Thay Yoe-Wasih and the last one is the spring rolls Street Tanggamus (Ny. Mechtildis Tyastresna Halim) lumpia her round and savory
The fourth stream is the number of former employees of the spring rolls Street Youth, and the fifth is the flow of people with a background in the culinary hobbies that make spring rolls with prescribed learning outcomes of the spring rolls were already circulating.
The oldest generation of today, which is the third generation of Siem Swie Kiem (68), remained faithful to serve its customers at the kiosk inherited from his father (Siem Gwan Sing) in Gang Gang Lombok Lombok 11. The specialty spring rolls, according to a number of fans who had met at the stall is the concoction shoots odorless, also a mixture of egg and shrimp is not fishy.
The fourth-generation artificial spring rolls can be obtained at the kiosk spring rolls alias Siem Siok Ms Lien Lien (43) at Jalan Jalan Pemuda and Pandanaran. Ms. Lien continue the stall of his late father, Siem Swie Hie, who is the brother of Siem Swie Kiem, at Jalan Pemuda (Gang mouth Grajen) while opening two branches in Jalan Pandanaran

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Ms Lien peculiarities of spring rolls are contents that added chicken meat concoction. When the beginning of the effort to continue her late father, Ms Lien make three kinds of spring rolls, namely spring rolls filled with shrimp, chicken spring rolls contents (for allergic shrimp), and a special spring rolls contain a mixture of shrimp and chicken. But, feeling the rush and moreover most buyers like special, now Ms Lien only make one of these, namely the special spring rolls with shrimp mixed content of bamboo shoots and chicken.
The fourth generation, namely children of the deceased Siem Hwa Nio (sister of Siem Swie Kiem) to continue her stall on Jalan Mataram (Jalan MT Haryono) in addition to opening a new kiosk at several places in the city of Semarang. Among the children of the deceased Siem Hwa Nio there also are opening a branch in Jakarta. There is even a grandchild of the deceased Siem Hwa Nio as the fifth generation open spring rolls alone kiosk in Semarang.




In addition to the families of the ancestral creator lumpia Semarang, now many people "outside" which makes lumpia Semarang. They are generally of their former employees. Those with culinary hobby also enliven spring rolls semarang business by creating their own spring rolls, like Lumpia Express, Phoa Kiem Hwa of the Semarang International Family and Garden Restaurant in Jalan Gajah Mada, Semarang.