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Chop suey

Traditional Chinese:
雜碎
Simplified Chinese:
杂碎
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin:
zá suì
Cantonese
Jyutping:
zaap6 seoi3
Yale:
jaāhp seui
Literal meaning:
mixed pieces

Chop suey (Chinese 'mixed pieces') is a American-Chinese dish consisting of meats (often chicken, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of deep-fried noodles.
Chop suey is part of American Chinese cuisine, Canadian Chinese cuisine, and, more recently, Indian Chinese cuisine.

Origin
There are various colorful stories about the origin of Chop Suey. It is alleged to have been invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the United States Transcontinental railway in the 19th century and has also been cited in New York City's Chinatown restaurants since the 1880s. Other sources say that a Chinese dignitary's cook, visiting the United States invented it.

Davidson (1999) characterizes these stories as "culinary mythology", citing Anderson (1988), who traces it to a dish of Taishan, the homeland of many Chinese immigrants.

Varieties
Chop Suey may be prepared in a variety of styles, such as chicken, beef, pork, king prawn, plain and special. Plain, or vegetable chop suey, is often one of the few traditional Chinese American take-out dishes offered without meat at many restaurants.

American Chop Suey
A completely different dish altogether, American Chop Suey is a pasta dish consisting of pasta noodles (macaroni, ziti, et cetera) mixed with a tomato-based sauce, ground beef, and often sauteed onion and peppers. While an Italian-American cuisine inspired dish, it is often seen on public school lunch menus under the name American Chop Suey. Other names for this dish are Chili-Macaroni, Chili-Mac, or simply Macaroni. American Chop Suey resembles a dish known as 'Johnny Marzetti', which was created in the 1920's by the brother of the owner of the Marzetti Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.