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Definition of Chop suey
1. Noun. Meat or fish stir-fried with vegetables (e.g., celery, onions, peppers or bean sprouts) seasoned with ginger and garlic and soy sauce; served with rice; created in the United States and frequently served in Chinese restaurants there.
Definition of Chop suey
1. Noun. (American English) A stir-fried vegetable dish, served with pieces of beef or pork in a semi-thick sauce, and often soy sauce. ¹
2. Noun. (Canada and British) Steamed bean sprouts served in a semi-thick sauce, and mixed with a choice of meat and/or vegetables. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chop Suey
Literary usage of Chop suey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Chinese Chances Through Europe's War by Paul Myron Linebarger (1915)
"After the laundryman came the cook with his chop suey restaurant, at first a
rather dubious affair as an all night eating place on the edge of the levee ..."
2. The Chinese Cook Book by Shiu Wong Chan (1917)
"PLAIN chop suey FAUN CHOP 2 pounds pork 2 pounds bean sprouts 2 cups onion
threads (a) Cut the pork into pieces 1/16 inch by % inch by 1 inch. ..."
3. Guarding a Great City by William McAdoo (1906)
"Chop-suey is getting a hold on New York. The chop-suey restaurant springs up in
all parts of the city. The Chinaman is a good cook, and, with pork and ..."
4. The Mendelssohn Club Cook Book by Mendelssohn Club (Rockford, Ill.) (1909)
"Chicken chop suey. Boil 1 chicken and pick it off the bones. ... Serve hot on a
large chop platter with a border of boiled rice, chop suey in the center. ..."
5. The Gourmet's Guide to London by Newnham-Davis (Nathaniel) (1914)
"A chop suey is to the Chinese what Irish stew is to the English and a ... Lat chew
chop suey is chop suey with green chutney. chop suey min is chop suey ..."
6. The Edison Monthly by New York Edison Company (1917)
"An announcement at Third avenue and Fifty-seventh street proclaiming chop suey
available till 4 am smacks more of the original. A flasher border surmounted ..."
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