egg foo yung

[ foo -yuhng ]

/ ˈfu ˈyʌŋ /

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a dish of a pancake-shaped omelet containing a mixture of chopped foods.

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<dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) fùh yùhng, equivalent to Chinese fúrong egg white, literally, the name of a kind of hibiscus

Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.
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Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.
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Egg-laying hens are placed in cages to unnaturally churn out egg after egg.
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We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
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Brush the pastry with egg wash and sprinkle with fleur de sel and pepper.
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Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
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For this reason the story of Yung Pak's youthful days may be the more interesting to his Western cousins.
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Perhaps Yung Pak's father did not say much, but any one could have seen by his face that he was tremendously pleased.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
Tiger-hunting, by the way, was considered great sport by Yung Pak's father.
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So when Yung Pak's father made him a present of a monkey—a real monkey—alive—he just danced with glee.
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