Egg foo young in the United States, at least as early as the 1930s, created a pancake filled with eggs, vegetables, and meat or seafood. In a U.S. regional variation, many American-Chinese restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri, serve what is called a St. Paul sandwich, which is an egg foo young patty served with mayonnaise, dill pickle, and sometimes lettuce and tomato between two slices of white bread. In the Netherlands, which has a local variation on the Chinese Indonesian cuisine, it is known as "Foe yong hai", and is usually served with a sweet tomato sauce. Strictly, according to "hai" in the
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach dish serves as the bridge of the nose, and the dish's foot doubles as the chin. The eyes of the large face, however, are formed by "background" objects lying on the sand at the edge of the strand — deeper in the image — rather than sharing form with the fruit dish. The face's right eye is what appears to be a shell, and the face's left eye a piece of a ship or boat. In the middle ground of the scene, where the sand of the beach appears to end, a small version of the fruit dish can be