Egg foo young name, it should contain "crab", but it is often served without this ingredient. The Vietnamese dish "chả trứng hấp" is similar to egg foo young. In Japanese Chinese cuisine, the dish "kani-tama" (かに玉 or 蟹玉) is similar, using crab meat instead of ham or other meats. Certain incarnations of the Korean-Chinese dish "jjajang bokkeumbap" (짜장 볶음밥) are similar; in essence the dish consists of "jjajang" (a dark brown black bean and meat sauce) and fried rice, with an optional fried egg or egg-foo-young-like omelet atop the rice. In Malay cuisine, it is similar to "telur bungkus", which literally means "wrapped
Written Cantonese Cantonese word for child is represented by 仔(jai), which has the original meaning of "young animal". Many characters used in Cantonese writings are formed by putting a mouth radical () on the left hand side of another better-known character (e.g. ), usually a standard Chinese character. This indicates that the new character sounds like the standard character, but is only used phonetically in the Cantonese context. (An exception is 咩, which does not sound like 羊 (sheep), but sounds like the sound that sheep make.) The characters which are commonly used in Cantonese writing include: There is evidence that the