foo yung

English

Alternative forms

• foo yong, foo young, fooyoung, fooyung

Etymology

From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).

Noun

foo yung (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• egg foo young

Anagrams

• ungoofy