1. Dice bamboo shoots, celery and water chestnuts. Mince onion.

2. Heat oil. Add vegetables and stir-fry 1 minute. Sprinkle with sugar, salt, soy sauce and pepper; stir-fry 1 minute more.

3. Remove vegetables from pan; drain, and let cool. Then sprinkle with flour.

4. Mince or shred ham. Beat eggs. First fold stir-fried vegetables, then ham, into eggs.

5. Reheat remaining oil. Spoon egg mixture into pan, 2 tablespoons at a time, and cook as in "Basic Pan Fried Egg Foo Yung".

6. Repeat process until egg mixture is used up, adding more oil as needed.

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, Isbn 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's Mm Recipe Archive, http://www. Erols. Com/hosey.