Hello hi everyone! Today we’re adding to our TV and film hack series with a request that a lot of folks have been asking for, which is a Chinese egg foo young. More specifically, we’ll be taking some inspiration from this comically racist scene from the 1970 disney film “the Aristocats," which was recently pulled from Disney Plus.

For those not familiar, egg foo young is a dish that actually does originate from traditional Chinese cuisine as a sort of “leftover egg scramble” of sorts, where restaurants essentially throw all of their leftover scraps into a wok with some eggs, scramble it like a frittata, and top it with a savory sauce. What a lot of folks might not realize though is that a truly traditional egg foo young is actually deep fried (not scrambled), giving it a much more crispy and fluffy texture than the more commonly found scrambled versions. Hope you try it!

It will be out on Friday April 2, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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