Egg Foo Young

Step 1

Place chicken stock, sherry, white pepper, sesame oil, oyster sauce, vinegar and sugar in a medium sauce pan and heat. Mix corn starch with soy sauce in a small bowl and add to pan and stir to combine and thicken. Once hot, remove from heat and hold for end of recipe.

Step 2

In a seasoned wok over high heat, add a half cup of oil and once hot, swirl around to oil sides then remove all but two tablespoons of the oil. Reserve the remaining oil.

Step 3

Once smoking hot, add the onion, garlic, shrimp, carrots and red bell pepper all at once and cook and stir for about two minutes until shrimp is cooked and starting to turn pink. Remove to a bowl or plate to cool. Turn off heat.

Step 4

In a large bowl, beat eggs and add fresh bean sprouts, oyster sauce, sugar, BBQ pork, pepper, peas and salt. Once the cooked ingredients are cool, add to the bowl. Stir to combine.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 200 degrees to keep the omelets warm while you cook the entire batch.

Step 6

Using the same pan you cooked the vegetables, heat to between medium and medium high. Once the pan is very hot, add about two tablespoons of the vegetable oil and once that is very hot, use a ¼ cup measure and scoop out a full ¼ cup of the mixture and pour it into the hot pan. The pan must be hot, and the omelets nice and browned when done, not mildly yellow like an omelet. As soon as you pour the mixture in, the sides will bubble up and puff in the hot oil and the bottom will brown. Once the center is set enough that you can safely flip, flip using your favorite spatula. I used a fish turner.

Step 7

Cook on the other side just long enough to set the egg then remove to a waiting oven proof platter. Continue until all the mixture has been cooked into several omelets, using two tablespoons of oil between each omelet. If there is enough oil after each batch, you don’t need to keep adding more, just make sure that each omelet is cooked in at least two tablespoons of the oil.

Step 8

Bring the sauce up to serving temperature and either serve on the side or pour over the omelets.

Step 9

Garnish with chopped green scallion tops.