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
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