chop suey
noun
chop su·ey
ˌchäp-ˈsü-ē 
plural chop sueys
: a dish prepared chiefly from bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, onions, mushrooms, and meat or fish and served with rice and soy sauce
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This is especially true at the Chicago Cafe, which serves sausage and eggs, pork chops and apple sauce and, on Fridays, clam chowder, along with traditional Chinese American fare such as chop suey and chow mein.
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Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Customers occupied almost every table and banquette, many chowing down the restaurant’s signature chop suey — which, like a lot of food served at the Chicago Cafe, is a Chinese American dish unfamiliar in China itself.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Some of the lunch combo options include shrimp chop suey, sweet and sour pork, beef with broccoli, vegetable chow mein, salt and pepper chicken wings.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
The cuisine survived the era of chop suey houses and anti-Chinese sentiment brought on by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
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Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Customers occupied almost every table and banquette, many chowing down the restaurant’s signature chop suey — which, like a lot of food served at the Chicago Cafe, is a Chinese American dish unfamiliar in China itself.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Some of the lunch combo options include shrimp chop suey, sweet and sour pork, beef with broccoli, vegetable chow mein, salt and pepper chicken wings.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
The cuisine survived the era of chop suey houses and anti-Chinese sentiment brought on by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for chop suey
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chop suey
noun
chop su·ey
chäp-ˈsü-ē
: a dish made chiefly from bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, onions, mushrooms, and meat or fish and served with rice and soy sauce
Etymology
from Chinese (dialect of Guangzhou and Hong Kong) jaahp seui, literally, "odds and ends"
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