Which New York City restaurant claims the oldest or original egg roll?

Nom Wah Tea Parlor is the New York City restaurant that claims the oldest or original egg roll.

Nom Wah opened in Manhattan’s Chinatown in 1920 and says it has made its unusually large egg rolls since 1929. Its version uses a thin omelette, or egg-crêpe, wrapper rather than the thick wheat wrapper associated with modern American Chinese egg rolls.

The claim is not the same as a settled answer about who invented the dish. Egg-roll origins remain disputed, and food historian Andrew Coe identified competing 1930s claims from Lung Fong of Lung Fong’s and Henry Low of Port Arthur. Low’s recipe appeared in a 1938 Chinese cookbook, but it differed from today’s cabbage-heavy style.

A common mix-up is treating egg rolls and Chinese spring rolls as identical. American egg rolls developed in the United States, usually contain cabbage and meat, and often contain no egg in the filling. The name may refer to an egg-based wrapper or older Chinese terminology.