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Chop suey (usually pronounced / ˈ tʃ ɒ p ˈ s uː i /) is a dish from American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, generally consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery, and bound in a starch-thickened sauce.
The Chinese influence goes deep into Philippine cooking, and way beyond food names and restaurant fare. The use of soy sauce and other soybean products ( tokwa , tahuri , miso , tausi , taho ) is Chinese, as is the use of such vegetables as petsay ( Chinese cabbage ), toge ( mung bean sprout ), mustasa (pickled mustard greens ).
In the Philippines, it is served in Chinese Filipino restaurants throughout the country, where it is known as cuapao (割包; koah-pau). [23] [3] [24] [25] [2] [26] In Hong Kong, they are known as cha bao (叉包) which means "fork buns" as the sandwiches are usually pierced by a toothpick or bamboo skewer to keep the fillings in place.
Mandarin Chinese English Description Image Bol renversé (lit. ' upside down bowl ') Magic bowl [3] [4] Rice-based dish served with a stir-fry sauce, similar to chop suey. Can contain meat, poultry, vegetables such as bok choy, and mushrooms. Usually topped with a fried egg. Briyani porc [5] Pork biryani
Cap cai, sometimes spelled cap cay, (Chinese: 雜菜; pinyin: zácài; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cha̍p-chhài; lit. 'mixed vegetables') is the Hokkien-derived term for a popular Chinese Indonesian and Peranakan stir fried vegetable dish that originates from Fujian cuisine.
Outside of Chinese restaurants, what is labeled as chow mein is frequently a chop suey-like stew that has little resemblance to actual chow mein. For example, the official U.S. military recipe (employed by cooking facilities of all four American military services) does not include noodles, comes with instructions to serve the dish over steamed ...
In Korean Chinese cuisine, the dishes derive primarily from Shandong cuisine while Filipino Chinese cuisine is strongly influenced by Fujian cuisine. American Chinese cuisine has distinctive dishes (such as chop suey) originally based on Cantonese cuisine, which are more popular among non-Chinese Americans than with Chinese Americans themselves ...
To wit, chop suey is a blanket term for any dish that is typical of localized Chinese food, e.g. American Chinese cuisine. Broccoli beef, cashew chicken, etc. are all just different forms of chop suey that grew out of a tradition of combining local ingredients with Chinese styles of preparation.