foo yung

foo-yung, fooyung, fu yung, fu-yung, fuyung, foo yong, foo-yong, fooyong, fu yong, fu-yong, fuyong, foo young, foo-young, fooyoung, fu young, fu-young, fuyoung

From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).

foo yung (uncountable)

(cooking) A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
- 2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455:
  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.

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