Barquillo

Biscuit roll

Alternative names	Crispy biscuit roll, crisp biscuit roll, cookie roll, love letter
Type	Biscuit
Place of origin	Europe, Asia
Media: Biscuit roll

Barquillo
Chinese name
Chinese	蛋卷
Literal meaning	egg roll
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin dàn juǎn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping daan6 gyun2
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	bánh quế
Malay name
Malay	kuih kapit
Filipino name
Tagalog	barquillos

The biscuit roll, crispy biscuit roll, egg roll, crisp biscuit roll, cookie roll or love letter is a type of biscuit snack commonly found in many parts of Asia, South America, and Spain. It is crunchy and can be easily broken into pieces.

Name

The Chinese name for this snack, "蛋卷", can be directly translated into English as "egg roll". However, the food item known in the West as egg roll is very different.

The Spanish name "barquillo", comes from the ancient tradition of heating the biscuits in convex or boat shape molds, being "barco" the spanish for boat.

Regional

In Hong Kong, biscuit rolls are made of wheat flour, butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla flavour. The New Territories is one of the places that manufacturers biscuit rolls.

It is called barquillos in the Philippines and is commonly sold in souvenir shops or delicacy stores all over towns, cities, and highways along the provinces.

They are also found in Uruguay and Spain with the name barquillos, the name for the barquillo vendor is barquillero, in Madrid they are commonly sold by street vendors dressed in the traditional "chulapo" regional attire.

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  Barquillos
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  Common metal containers
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  A tin of Love Letters
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  Vendor of barquillos in Madrid

See also

• Spring roll
• Egg roll
• Cha gio
• Krumkake
• Semprong

External links

• Media related to Barquillos at Wikimedia Commons