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
Cantonese cultural center of the region. Cantonese emerged as the prestige variety of Yue Chinese when the port city of Guangzhou on the Pearl River Delta became the largest port in China, with a trade network stretching as far as Arabia. Cantonese was also used in the popular "Yuè'ōu", "Mùyú" and "Nányīn" folksong genres, as well as Cantonese opera. Additionally, a distinct classical literature was developed in Cantonese, with Middle Chinese texts sounding more similar to modern Cantonese than other present-day Chinese varieties, including Mandarin. As Guangzhou became China's key commercial center for foreign trade and exchange in the 1700s, Cantonese