Posted
By Wendy Chan
on Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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The Krusty Krab has nothing on classic egg foo yung with Dungeness.
Editor's note: Looking for a new way to prepare that fresh crab the North Coast is blessed with this time of year? Wendy Chan has you covered with her Crab Foo Yung recipe from the Journal's achieves, a dish inspired by all those times her sons watched SpongeBob SquarePants
while growing up.
The Krabby Patty from
SpongeBob SquarePants has been stuck in my head for years. From the time my kids enjoyed watching SpongeBob, I heard "Krabby Patty" over and over. I assumed it was a crab cake patty because there was a crab walking around in the show. I swear, for all these years I thought it was crabby with a "C," not "Krabby," until I Googled it yesterday. When I told my boys, now grown, they laughed. Jay said it's a secret formula so no one actually knows what the patty is made of, but it looks like a meat patty. Well, my version of a crabby patty looks like the classic Chinese egg foo yung my dad used to make in the morning before the restaurant he worked at opened. There were always at least a few dozen on the grill. They were big sellers with combination plates but I always liked mine with seafood.