Chinese menu: What is the difference between an omelette and foo yung?

Surely they are the same thing.Chinese menu: What is the difference between an omelette and foo yung?
It is the same my ex hubby used to make me mad ordering egg foo young as I could make him an omellette at home

I want special fried rice or a special chow mein with ribs and curry sauce ooh I am hungry now.
Foo Yung is served with a brown sauce and is full of vegetables in the batter.



~Morg~Chinese menu: What is the difference between an omelette and foo yung?
maybe foo yung is Chinese for.........omelette.
Not a lot but you should be wary of ordering non-Chinese food in a Chinese restaurant. To a Chinese cook an omelette is a foreign dish and he will not have the same skill in preparing it as he would a Foo Yung. Similarly all the other "English" dishes on the menu in a Chinese restaurant will be cooked as foreign food and will not be like those that you are used to. Solution is if you want English food do not get it from a Chinese restaurant. If you want Chinese food don't get it from an English restaurant. Eat the food of the country.
They are not the same thing at all. If you got a special omelette, you should have got a mixture of different meats and the egg in one piece. Your foo young should have had the same different pieces of meat with beansprouts, and onions or some other type of veg and scramled up. It should also have a soft and fluffy texture.
foo yung is made with soya milke rather than fresh milk used in omelette
foo young is a very thin omlet cut into strips
foo young is chinese for omelette? i dunno, dont ask me, what you asking me for?
I think what makes it Egg Foo Young is the sauce served with it.
Foo Yung is more like scrambled eggs with the veg mixed in.
omlette is omlette foo yung is with egg
i am chef i work in a asian restaurant long time ago when i was 20 the term egg Foo_yong as omelette in u.s.a. the egg Foo_yong is a FAKE Egg omelette of these cheap chinese Restaurants that charge too much yet they serve too much cornstarch,which is cheaper and easy to cook almost anything'' that is the wonder powder of Mr.Yan long time old show!the omellete that i ate here @Denny's is the Real omelette they use 3 or more eggs for making omelettes
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Oh my god, I'm so bloody hungry now!
Foo yung is a decriptive word for the appearance of the egg dish. There is no set recipe for what one can put into the egg foo yung except the ingradients should make the dish presentable with good appearance and good taste. Omelette has a number of appearances depending on what kind of pans it is cooked in and how skillful the cook can flip the eggs to shape into a omelette. Similarly, it is quite arbitrary to put any meat or vegetable ingradients in the omeleete.
An omelet in a Chinese restaurant is for people who do not like foreign food but have to go to Indian/Chinese/etc/etc places because it is the in thing. Normal people do not even look at "Western Dishes" on the menu otherwise why go there in the first place.

Anyway no culture has an exclusive right to an egg dish and can call it what they like in their own country.
DIRECTIONS:

The omelet that involves cooking a sheet of egg on both sides and then folding some stuff in it -- or worse, folding the egg and dropping the stuff right on top of it -- is really no omelet at all. I'm going to walk you through a basic three-egg omelet here, and I want you to appreciate that I did this one-handed (so I could take the pictures).



If you whipped one of these up on the morning after a hot date, let me guarantee that your guest will be impressed. Prep time: 5 minutes, cook time: 10 minutes.





Foo yung:

6 eggs, slightly beaten

1 c. cooked shrimp, pork, beef or chicken

1 c. bean sprouts

1/4 c. finely chopped green onions



Mix all ingredients, fry in hot vegetable oil. Serve with Foo Yung Sauce.



EGG FOO YUNG SAUCE:



1 (14 1/2 oz.) can chicken broth

2 tbsp. cornstarch

2 tsp. soy sauce



Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Cook stirring constantly until thickened. Serve over Egg Foo Yung.
fu yung is made with chinese eggs