TikTok boosts rice-paper fish and chips
- Taste of Home pushed rice-paper fish and chips into the 2026 food-trend cycle after publishing Kristina Vänni’s Jan. 20 air-fryer test of the TikTok recipe. - Vänni’s version wraps four cod fillets, about 1 pound total, in egg-softened rice paper and air-fries them at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. - Rice paper has spread beyond spring rolls into chips, spirals and fish hacks this year. (tasteofhome.com)
Rice-paper fish and chips moved from TikTok clips to mainstream recipe coverage when Taste of Home published a Jan. 20 test calling the air-fryer hack “a hit.” (tasteofhome.com) The recipe swaps beer batter for rice paper softened in a seasoned egg wash, then wrapped around cod before cooking in an air fryer. Taste of Home’s published version uses four cod fillets, about 1 pound total. (tasteofhome.com) Kristina Vänni’s method calls for air-frying the wrapped fish at 400 degrees for 12 minutes, flipping, then cooking three minutes more. She wrote that the coating came out “crisp” and “golden.” (tasteofhome.com) The dish is part of a broader rice-paper boom in home cooking feeds. Taste of Home published a March 20 roundup of 11 rice-paper recipes that included fish and chips, chips, spirals and dessert uses. (tasteofhome.com) That matters because rice paper has usually been framed in U.S. food media as a wrapper for Vietnamese-style spring rolls. The newer pitch is versatility: crisp it in hot air or oil, and it becomes a gluten-free shell or chip. (tasteofhome.com 1) (tasteofhome.com 2) TikTok evidence suggests the fish variation predates the 2026 write-ups. A Crazy Korean Cooking video published in May 2023 showed “rice paper fish chips” and logged 49,500 likes in TikTok’s indexed result. (tiktok.com) More recent TikTok posts kept the idea circulating. A July 22, 2025 video from recipesbyvictoria labeled “DAY 2: RICE PAPER FISH & CHIPS” showed 17,900 likes in TikTok’s search result. (tiktok.com) The same pattern shows up in adjacent foods. TikTok and recipe sites still surface Korean-style cream cheese garlic bread as a high-engagement sweet-savory bake, even though the format has been circulating online for years. (tiktok.com) (theblogette.com) What changed in 2026 was less the invention than the packaging. Publishers began turning scattered TikTok experiments into named, tested recipes that readers could reproduce with cod, rice paper, eggs and an air fryer. (tasteofhome.com 1) (tasteofhome.com 2) For now, the appeal is simple: a pantry wrapper better known for rolls is being recast as a crunchy coating, and food publishers are treating that as a repeatable weeknight trick. (tasteofhome.com)
