{"id":83534,"date":"2024-09-06T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=83534"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:35:35","slug":"side-streats-making-lumpia-may-be-helping-me-reach-my-full-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/side-streats-making-lumpia-may-be-helping-me-reach-my-full-potential","title":{"rendered":"Side StrEATS: &#8216;Making lumpia may be helping me reach my full potential&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Side StrEATS: Long Beach Lumpia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmZ0T_dpIYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After nearly a decade as a probation officer, Emerson Baja needed a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He switched gears to social work and poured more attention into hobbies, and a year ago began bringing in lumpia for his coworkers to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, he sells out nearly every event he does around Long Beach, and says &#8220;lumpia may be helping me reach my full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know when I make lumpia and fry it, somebody is going to eat it and somebody\u2019s going to taste the love and it\u2019s going to make a lot of people, groups of people happy,\u201d Baja said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lumpia is essentially a Filipino egg roll. The most well-known version is lumpia Shanghai, which typically features ground beef and ground pork with mixed veggies rolled inside of a pastry sheet, then deep fried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The slogan on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/longbeachlumpia\/#\">Long Beach Lumpia<\/a> banner \u2013 Made with Hella Love \u2013 is a shout out to Baja\u2019s Bay Area roots and also a philosophy his mom passed down to him about preparing food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/lumpia-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-180x108.jpg 180w, https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T-400x240.jpg 400w, https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/25140825\/lumpia-1-971767-s3gknyvl-411042-su0hyu1T.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emerson Baja, owner right, writes his menu board for his food pop-up, Long Beach Lumpia, at the Queen Mary Night Market in Long Beach, Wednesday, July. 11, 2024. 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Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Baja moved from Richmond to Long Beach for college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I stepped in the city, something about it felt like home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After moving back to Long Beach from Santa Barbara, where Baja spent a stretch working as a probation officer, the pair met up at a bar and Baja laid out his plan to launch a business selling creative varieties of lumpia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baja met his friend and fellow lumpia roller Victor Rodriguez in a fraternity at Cal State Long Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodriguez has been nothing but supportive since then, Baja said, helping to craft new recipes and even lend a hand making lumpia for events after he gets off work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#XHECJQES\">Link<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a decade as a probation officer, Emerson Baja now makes and sells lumpia at local events, including this weekend&#8217;s Craft Beer LB Fest at Rancho Los Cerritos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23521,"featured_media":83446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[355,30566],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32323,2771],"class_list":["post-83534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-filipino-food","tag-side-streats","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83544,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83534\/revisions\/83544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83534"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=83534"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}