(Canada, and, British) Steamed bean sprouts served in a semi-thick sauce, and mixed with a choice of meat and/or vegetables.
Oh, I thought it was Chop Suey! by SOAD. I must have misheard. To be fair, I was standing pretty far away...
THIS Wednesday — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀 returns to Chop Suey!!! Each month, a group of brave single queers takes the stage to compete in ridiculous games, answer mildly invasive questions, and attempt to char…
(Canada, and, British) Steamed bean sprouts served in a semi-thick sauce, and mixed with a choice of meat and/or vegetables.
To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the ome…
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A westernized Chinese dish of stir-fried noodles with vegetables and meat or seafood.
Chap chye is a Singaporean and Malaysian dish of mixed vegetables — a traditional braised vegetable dish common in Singaporean Chinese and Peranakan cuisine, typically made with cabbage, glass noodles, and various other vegetables and flavouring agents. The name comes from Hokkien and means 'mixed vegetables.' It is a staple home-cooked dish and appears regularly in hawker centres across Singapore and Malaysia. The term is part of the rich Hokkien-influenced food vocabulary that characterises Singaporean English.
(Singapore) A dish of boiled or steamed chicken wrapped in lettuce, served with garlic sauce or ginger sauce.
(US, Canada, cuisine) A Chinese-American food, a hamburger bun filled with chow mein and slathered with a brown sauce.
I heard Canada invented Chop Suey.
“Oh, I thought it was Chop Suey! by SOAD. I must have misheard. To be fair, I was standing pretty far away...”
“THIS Wednesday — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀 returns to Chop Suey!!! Each month, a group of brave single queers takes the stage to compete in ridiculous games, answer mildly invasive questions, and attempt to charm both the audience and each other. Tickets at Chopsuey.com”
“I heard Canada invented Chop Suey.”
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(US, Philippines, AU) A stir-fried vegetable dish, served with pieces of beef or pork in a semi-thick sauce, and often soy sauce.
To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the ome…
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