Chicken Egg Foo Young update

Kung Fu Thai & Chinese Restaurant is using a redesigned Chicken Egg Foo Young listing to sell a familiar dish as a fresh reason to visit. (finance.yahoo.com) The Las Vegas restaurant said April 20 that it updated the dish’s menu presentation with more detail on ingredients and preparation, part of what it called broader menu transparency standards. The item is listed as menu No. 364. (finance.yahoo.com) On the restaurant’s ordering page, Chicken Egg Foo Young is priced at $19.25 and described as extra-large eggs mixed with celery, white onions, green cabbage, and bean sprouts, pan-fried and topped with brown gravy and chicken leg meat. The page also lists add-ons including white meat for $2, extra meat for $2.25, and brown rice for $1. (kungfuplaza.com) Egg Foo Young is a Chinese American omelet dish, and Kung Fu Thai & Chinese is framing its rewrite as a way to explain how its version is built rather than simply naming the plate. The company said the new wording is meant to give diners more ingredient and preparation detail before they order. (finance.yahoo.com) The timing fits a restaurant that has been publishing a steady stream of dish-specific promotions in April, including a separate April 15 release highlighting its Egg Foo Young and other Cantonese-style dishes. That campaign centers on heritage, consistency, and signature menu items rather than a new recipe rollout. (finance.yahoo.com) Kung Fu Thai & Chinese says it has served Las Vegas since 1973 or 1974, depending on which page of its own site is cited. Its current restaurant is at 3505 South Valley View Boulevard, just west of the Strip in the Chinatown area. (kungfuplaza.com 1) (kungfuplaza.com 2) (kungfuplaza.com 3) The dish itself is not new. What changed this week is the way the restaurant describes and presents it, turning a long-running menu staple into a marketing push aimed at drawing diners back to a 50-year-old local brand. (finance.yahoo.com)