Talk:Egg foo young

message: Surely it's "egg fu yung"? Cptoatsy 18:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When I originally wrote the egg foo young I thought I was the only one who ate it thanks for proving me wrong! Lbparker40 20:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

text: (That was originally told by Ralph Malph from Happy Days) Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 22:00, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous

message: What part needs to be discussed? Benjwong 02:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This food is generally understood in North America to be a very Westernized dish that was developed for American tastes, using American-style "Chinese" ingredients, and essentially something that isn't known in China. Is this incorrect? It's certainly one of the 10 or so dishes most familiar to Americans in the 1950s, when Chinese food started to become most popular (along with chop suey, chow mein, moo goo gai pan, fried rice, lo mein, etc).
We've had this problem with several dishes that Taiwanese and Hong Kongers insisted that they had grown up eating in restaurants in those places, but I am uncertain whether some dishes invented by Cantonese in America may have found their way back to those places over the past 50 years or so. This is one dish about which these questions are important to answer. And we can't just rely on our own experience, but really find sources that can explain the real origin of this dish, as well as the differences (if any) between the "original Asian version" and the "Americanized version." Badagnani 04:05, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no mentioning of anything but North America in this article at the current moment.  Are you saying it should mention places in the fareast?? Benjwong 04:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Then the controversial part must be "Egg Foo Yung has Chinese origins, by means of the traditional Fu Yung Egg slices, a dish from the city of Shanghai. This dish is prepared with beaten egg whites and minced ham. Some northern parts of China have also been known to use chicken instead of ham. From these dishes early creative Chinese chefs in the American 1950s and 1960s created a pancake filled with eggs, vegetables, and meat or seafood." and should be put back? I think that's what you are suggesting. Benjwong 04:51, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

text: While people may eat something similar in shanghai, I am doubting it as an actual origin. Just as you may eat pizza in Taiwan, but you wouldn't be saying it was from Taiwan. Using flickr as a loose guide.  The people uploading the correct pic of egg foo young seems to all be from US and the west in general.  People who claim they are uploading pictures of egg foo young in Chinese 芙蓉蛋 are uploading pictures of regular omelette. Benjwong 05:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What needs to be discussed

message: I thought it was spelled "egg foo yung" why is the title "egg foo young"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.73.17.222 (talk) 16:01, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe "egg foo young" is the most common way this has historically been spelled on Chinese restaurant menus in North America. Badagnani 21:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the title of the page spelled "Egg Foo Young"? 

message: According to a food writer acquaintance in Taiwan, this dish may have originated in China, since it is named after a flower whose name appears in literature 1000 years ago in China. She says that Chinese people compared the eggs in egg drop soup ("egg flower soup") to the hibiscus flower. Need sources for this. Badagnani 21:27, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: My family used to order this regularly at a Chinese restaurant we frequented in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Any Chinese influence on Malaysia is more likely to have come from the south of China rather than the US.  --BrokenSphereMsg me 21:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Chinese?  Says who? 

message: I added these, but then I see that they had been added with a wikt tag, but that doesn't show anything on my screen.  How is that supposed to work?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Millercor (talk • contribs) 16:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese characters from which it is derived 

message: I have assessed this article as a low importance C-class article. While it is a classic Chinese-American dish, its impact on Chinese and American cuisine is minimal. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 02:33, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPFood assessment 

message: What is the gravy that Egg foo young is typically served with?  If you order vegetable egg foo young, does the gravy make it non-vegetarian?--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 22:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a problem with animal fat with no meat present, you probably aren't going to eat eggs to begin with.
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":If you have a problem with animal fat with no meat present, you probably aren't going to eat eggs to begin with."
This is total BS. Most ovo lacto vegetarians would exclude a meat based gravy even if there was no actual flesh involved. The contents of the gravy is totally dependent on the restaurant (esp if it's east or west coast style American Chinese). There is often beef or chicken stock in the gravy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.88.228 (talk) 06:14, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gravy 

message: Surely there's more to it! it seems to be deep fried or something.. it has a totally unique texture and a dry outer skin that's... totally delicious.. and browned.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 04:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  just an omelette? 

message: I humbly submit to you wikikings, http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561553266/Civilization_To_the_Chinese_we_have_given_kerosene_.html, which is footnote #3.  A dead link.  Please correct o mighty wikibeings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.252.65.65 (talk) 05:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead LInk Footnote 

message: Vietnamese "chá trứng hấp" -- cite added:  I don't usually cite YouIube but it was the only ref I could find in English!  Need a Vietnamese speaker to judge whether the equivalent dish is "chá trứng hấp" or just "trứng hấp".D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 18:57, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison