Egg foo young egg" (the wrap usually contains chicken or beef, onions, mushrooms, vegetables, and gravy, wrapped inside the egg) In Chinese Thai cuisine, this dish is called "Khai Chiao Yat Sai", which literally means "stuffed fried egg". The common recipe uses minced pork and shredded spring onion. Egg foo young Egg foo young (, also spelled egg fooyung, egg foo yong, egg foo yung, or egg fu yung) is an omelette dish found in Chinese Indonesian, British, and Chinese American cuisine. The name comes from the Cantonese language. Egg foo young is derived from fu yung egg slices, a mainland Chinese recipe
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