soong

1. uncountableIn American Chinese cuisine, minced meat or vegetables.

   shrimp soong

   3 more examples

   lobster soong

   vegetable soong

   Vegetable soong was a medley of mostly fresh ingredients (frozen peas were the exception) served in a lettuce wrapper - agreeable but rather underseasoned. They would have benefited from a sauce for dipping. Spicy cold vegetables featured strips of red-peppered Chinese cabbage.

   1983 May 22, Patricia Brooks, “Dining out; good but inconsistent Chinese”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015

plural Soongs · alternative Sung · alternative Song

1. A surname.