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Encyclopedia > Egg foo yung

Egg foo young, or egg foo yung (Cantonese fu yung taan; Chinese: 芙蓉蛋; Pinyin: fúróng dàn; literally "hibiscus egg") is a Chinese omelet commonly served in Westernized Chinese restaurants. It is made with various vegetables often used in Westernized Chinese cuisine, such as celery and water chestnuts, and sometimes meat is included as an ingredient. Pinyin (拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ... An Omelette or omelet is a preparation of beaten egg cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, often folded around a filling. ... American Chinese cuisine (什碎館 or 雜碎館) is a unique style of cooking served by Chinese restaurants in the United States. ... Binomial name Apium graveolens L. Celery (Apium graveolens) is a herbaceous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the coasts of western and northern Europe, most commonly in ditches and saltmarshes. ... Binomial name Eleocharis dulcis (Burm. ...


More authentic varieties of this dish can be found in China and Taiwan.


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