Rice paper is sold in dried sheets. Before using them, you will need to rehydrate them to make them supple.Once rehydrated, rice paper can be eaten as is like with summer rolls or fried.
When it comes to frying, rice paper becomes incredibly crisp and light.
Thin, translucent sheets of rice-flour dough, rice paper is used to wrap up Vietnamese summer rolls.
The sheets are brittle and fragile straight out of the package, and then are soaked briefly in water to soften them to a pliable texture.