Chop Suey question...?!
Anyway... how are they cooked? Boiled or steamed or how? And for how long?
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Answers:
"Chop Suey" in Chinese (Cantonese dialect) literally means combination of little bits, legend has it that a Chinese cook ran out of ingredients late at night so he gathered up all the little bits of left over, called chop suey, and stir fried them together. In China, chop suey is very rarely found on menus because it indicates the cook is making something from left overs.
Therefore chop suey per se does not refer to noodles nor sprouts, it actually represents left over combo stir fried. Most of the time, there are sliced pork or chicken, some vegetables with bean sprouts and sprinkled with fried noodle.
Chop suey is a stir-fried dish.
Most chop suey contained bean sprouts, celery, carrots, and onions. Common chop suey choices are: Beef, chicken, pork, char-siu (BBQ pork), shrimp, combination (of all items listed above) or vegetables only. If chop suey should contain any type noodles, it will be those short, deep fried crispy noodles. They were used as a decoration that will help change the texture and aroma; crispy noodles weren't one of the main ingredients.
chop suey as i have known and always cooked is a combination of different vegetables like cabbage, carrots, chayote, green beans, bell papper and the like with a little to medium quatity of sauce, included with it are meat like pork or chicken and chicken liver. you can do it sauteed or stir fry. others use oyster sauce for the seasoning or simply soy sauce, and cornstarch as thickening agent.
