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 Fu the character was a Yellow Peril ethnic stereotype, complete with caricaturish Asian facial features and dialogue written in a phoneticized Chinese accent. His name is an obvious play on the name of a Chinese ethnic dish, egg foo young. Certain 21st-century updates, such as changing his name to "Chang Tzu" and affiliating him with DC Comics' Chinese superhero team the Great Ten, maintain his Asian ethnicity while striving to de-emphasize problematic aspects of his historically racialized characterization. Appearances in "Harley Quinn" in 2014 and "Harley Quinn and Power Girl" in 2015, though restoring the name Egg Fu, have expunged overt