Egg Foo Young: Have you ever had this dish? Do you like it?

[Ns1]

So on another board I'm on we had a discussion on old school chinese and up came egg foo young. After seeing pictures I can only say WTF IS THIS SHIT? THIS IS WHAT WAS CONSIDERED CHINESE FOOD?!

This dish is prepared with beaten eggs and minced ham. From these dishes, Chinese chefs in the United States, at least as early as the 1930s, created a pancake filled with eggs, vegetables, and meat or seafood.

The dish usually appears as a well-folded omelette with the non-egg ingredients embedded in the egg mixture, covered with or served in sauce or gravy. It is readily prepared for take-out and packed in a container.

It may be made with various vegetables such as bean sprouts, celery, and water chestnuts. When meat is used as an ingredient, a choice of roast pork, shrimp, chicken, beef, or lobster may be offered.

 

[techs]

I actually like it a lot.

 

[joesmoke]

ive had it, nothing special. one of those "drown it in sauce" kind of things...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Not a fan, never something I order when getting Chinese food. It's like the unholy love child of Chinese mating with American deep south breakfast food.

 

[bfdd]

I have had it and would have it again.

 

[Born2bwire]

Good stuff, I love it.

Actually you can get that in China sans the gravy. Generally though it is filled with oysters. Basically it's just a fluffy omelette.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yeah I like it, but it's been years since I last had any.

KT

 

[guyver01]

Love Egg Foo Young...

Some places the sauce is just... wrong.

 

[IGemini]

Basically a giant fried dough ball. Had it without any sauce, would not recommend. The local place made it with very little meat (if at all, don't recall) so that could've had something to do with it.

 

[Locut0s]

Love Egg Foo Young...

Some places the sauce is just... wrong.

Damn I hate agreeing with you.

Yeah it's a good dish, but as you said the sauce has to be done right.

Note to everyone else go to some hole in the wall chinese restaurant in downtown chinatown. Assuming you have a good china town where you live. Whatever you do don't go to some american chinese restaurant, that stuff is sick. Or just come up here to Vancouver! We're basically 1/2 Chinese here

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Basically a giant fried dough ball. Had it without any sauce, would not recommend. The local place made it with very little meat (if at all, don't recall) so that could've had something to do with it.

That's not egg foo yung.

 

[guyver01]

Basically a giant fried dough ball.

They're doing it wrong.

It's supposed to be an Omelete.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Basically a giant fried dough ball.

Hell no! Fried dough is WAY better than egg foo young.

 

[IGemini]

Hell no! Fried dough is WAY better than egg foo young.

No argument there...this stuff was bad. Calling it "dough" is probably misleading, but it was closer to that kind of consistency than an omelette...this place is actually Chinese-operated but they overuse vegetable oil in a lot of the stuff they make. I never wanted to try the EFY a second time to check. :hmm:

 

[Iron Woode]

Egg Foo Young is totally awesome.

I love they way its done at this one Chinese Restaurant here.

 

[Rifter]

Love it!

 

[mcurphy]

Egg Foo Young is awesome when done right. Like someone mentioned, it's all about the sauce. The whole dish is really just an omelet covered in "gravy". The gravy makes the dish.

 

[borisvodofsky]

Damn I hate agreeing with you.

Yeah it's a good dish, but as you said the sauce has to be done right.

Note to everyone else go to some hole in the wall chinese restaurant in downtown chinatown. Assuming you have a good china town where you live. Whatever you do don't go to some american chinese restaurant, that stuff is sick. Or just come up here to Vancouver! We're basically 1/2 Chinese here

I've been there, you guys have lost all the gansta-hood of being chinese. I felt non of that killer chi, or the smiles with hidden daggers, like in HongKong or mainland, even taipei had more china evil than you guys.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Absolutely love it.

Place in Oakland China town does it perfect with lots of veggies. I order the chicken or mushroom. lots of veggies and lots of eggs win a flatter patty - not a ball but more pancake like.

Gravy is the key.

 

[Locut0s]

I've been there, you guys have lost all the gansta-hood of being chinese. I felt non of that killer chi, or the smiles with hidden daggers, like in HongKong or mainland, even taipei had more china evil than you guys.

lol. Still some of the most authentic Chinese food you can find in North America, outside the largest US cities. Where did you go? Richmond is basically like Taiwan/HK transplanted to NA. If you want something more seedy/dirty then head to old Chinatown. Both are good.

 

[pillage2001]

Egg foo yong does not come dipped in gravy in the first place. It's only in America that I see this happened. :S

 

[guyver01]

Egg foo yong does not come dipped in gravy in the first place.

According to Wikipedia, it does..

The dish usually appears as a well-folded omelette with the non-egg ingredients embedded in the egg mixture, covered with or served in sauce or gravy. It is readily prepared for take-out and packed in a container.

and i trust Wiki over you.

 

[QueBert]

Omelette's aren't round balls, and they have cheese + preferably Bacon or Sausage or both in them. A round Omelette without any of that shit in it + gravy on top is epic fail.

 

[guyver01]

Omelette's aren't round balls

Egg Foo Young isn't a round ball either.

It's a pancake.

The one in the picture is most likely lying on a bed of rice.. giving it a concave appearance.

 

[Born2bwire]

According to Wikipedia, it does..





and i trust Wiki over you.

He said in America and I tend to agree with him on that point.