egg foo yung
or egg fu yung
[foo yuhng]
noun Chinese-American Cookery.
a dish of a pancake-shaped omelet containing a mixture of chopped foods.
Origin of egg foo yung
< dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) fùh yùhng, equivalent to Chinese fúrong egg white, literally, the name of a kind of hibiscus
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