Rice Paper Salad Rolls with Ginger Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

• thin asparagus

  bottoms trimmed and discarded, with 4- to 5-inch tips remaining
  1 lb
• sea salt
  1 tsp
• canola oil
  1 tsp
• rice vermicelli
  2 oz
• carrots

  peeled and sliced into long strips, ⅛ inch wide
  2 unit
• Japanese cucumber

  peeled and sliced into long strips, ⅛ inch wide
  1 unit
• large fresh mint leaves
  ½ cup
• head red-leaf lettuce

  leaves separated and washed
  1 small
• (8½-inch-round) rice paper wrappers
  8 to 10 unit
• Ginger Dipping Sauce
  1 unit