foo yung

noun

A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.

Meanings

nounfoo yung (uncountable)

alternative foo-yung · alternative fooyung · alternative fu yung · alternative fu-yung · alternative fuyung · alternative foo yong · alternative foo-yong · alternative fooyong · alternative fu yong · alternative fu-yong · alternative fuyong · alternative foo young · alternative foo-young · alternative fooyoung · alternative fu young · alternative fu-young

  1. uncountablecookingA Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.

    To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right.

    2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455

Origin

  1. Cantonese芙蓉
  2. Englishfoo yung

From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).

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APA

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Chicago

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