What is chop suey? What does it taste like?!
Answers: it's like stir fry mixed veggies.....mostly napa cabbage and carrots
Chop suey is a mixture of vegetables. The vegetables could include cabbage, bean sprout, bamboo shoots and carrots. It taste like vegetables stir fry in oil or butter. It can be gooey and oily.
it's a bunch of chinese veggies in a brown sauce with meat or poultry. it is very good. it mostly has bean sprouts, water chestnuts, celery, bok choy, bamboo shoots, and sliced carrots in it. you eat it with rice. if you eat it with crispy fried noodles, then it's called chow mein.
"Chop suey" (literally: mixed pieces) is made-in-America for Americans (Rogers & Hammerstein "Flower Drum Song"). Traditionally, it's whatever's leftover from last night's meal (Chinese have a habit of keeping unfinished cooked food) to fry together with fresh veggies.)
In American-Chinese restaurants, the dish would normally consist of meats (often chicken, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables, soy sauce etc. Generally, tastes 'acceptably salty, lil sweetish' without a distinctive flavor/taste of its own - ok as a light snack/sidedish but not as a meal. For that "leftover bits" will not do.
Rogers & Hammerstein "Flower Drum Song"
Chop suey, chop suey!
Living here is very much like chop suey.
Hula hoops and nuclear war,
Doctor Salk and Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee, and Dewey,
Chop suey, --Chop suey!--
Stars are drifting overhead,
Birds and worms have gone to bed.
Men work late in laboratories,
Others read detective stories.
Some are roaming 'round the country,
Others sit beneath just one tree.
Tonight on TV's Late, Late Show
You can look at Clara Bow! --Who?--
Chop suey, chop suey!
Good and bad, intelligent, mad, and screwy.
Violins and trumpets and drums,
Take it all the way that it comes,
Sad and funny, sour and honey dewy,
Chop suey!
Ballpoint pens and filter tips,
Lipsticks and potato chips.
In the dampest kind of heat wave
You can give your hair a neat wave.
Hear that lovely La Paloma,
Lullaby by Perry Como.
Dreaming in my Maid'nform bra,
Dreamed I danced the Cha-Cha-Cha.
Chop suey, chop suey!
Mixed with all the hokum and bally hooey.
Something real and glowing grand.
Sheds a light all over the land.
Boston, Austin, Wichita, and St. Louey,
Chop suey.
Chop suey, chop suey!
Chop suey, chop suey!
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