foo yung
foo yung noun: a Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
Noun
foo yung (uncountable)
- A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
- To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right.2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455
Forms of foo yung
| alternative form | foo-yung |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fooyung |
| alternative form | fu yung |
| alternative form | fu-yung |
| alternative form | fuyung |
| alternative form | foo yong |
| alternative form | foo-yong |
| alternative form | fooyong |
| alternative form | fu yong |
| alternative form | fu-yong |
| alternative form | fuyong |
| alternative form | foo young |
| alternative form | foo-young |
| alternative form | fooyoung |
| alternative form | fu young |
| alternative form | fu-young |
| alternative form | fuyoung |
Origin of foo yung
From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).
Questions about foo yung
- What does foo yung mean?
- Foo yung means a Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
- What part of speech is foo yung?
- Foo yung is a noun.
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