The Summerrolls concept is based on a vision of making Vietnam's best-kept food and health secrets more accessible to the Australian public.

Founders Minh and Nui, a young Vietnamese-Thai couple from Sydney, developed the idea in 2003 following their first trip together to Vietnam and other parts of South East Asia.

"Having experienced during our travels the delights, simplicity and richness of Vietnamese street food - food served by hawkers and street vendors - we agreed that something this good can't be kept a secret," Minh says.

Something this good can't be kept a secret

As Australia's newest Vietnamese gastronomic evangelists, Minh and Nui soon turned their backs on their promising careers and vowed to dedicate themselves to a life of devout cooking and prayerful food pilgrimages.

Minh was a published political researcher while Nui was working with a government agency. But determination overcame their woeful lack of food experience and after several trips to Asia, Minh and Nui developed a specialised menu and perfected their signature range of five summer roll sauces and four fat-free Asian salad dressings.

"When we first started, we didn't know how to turn on a commercial stove," Minh recalls. "Now we're getting calls from experienced chefs asking us for tips on making sauces!"

Summerrolls opened its first store in 2007 at Foodbase on Park in Sydney CBD focusing on summer rolls, Asian salads, noodle soups, Vietnamese baguettes and corporate catering.

The business continues to experience growth as an increasingly discerning and health-conscious public warms to the idea of quality, tasty and convenient Vietnamese street food to go.

Summerrolls has received several industry recognitions, including the title of Sydney's Best Vietnamese awarded by the City News three years running.

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