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[[Image:Hopper Chop Suey.jpg|thumb|Chop Suey by Edward Hopper.]]
[[Image:Hopper Chop Suey.jpg|thumb|Chop Suey by Edward Hopper.]]
'''Chop Suey''' is a [[Chinese]] dish often of chicken, beef, shrimp or pork.
'''Chop Suey''' is a [[Chinese]] dish consisting of a stir-fried mix of vegetables, together with either chicken, beef, shrimp or pork, gravy. It is served on a bed of rice.
There is a long-held belief that the dish was born in either [[San Fransisco]], by [[Chinese]] immigrants who came to California in search of work; or [[New York]], as a result of Chinese ambassador Li Hung Chang's cooks, who invented the dish for his American guests at a dinner on 29 August, 1896. However, it would appear as if chop suey's roots can be traced back to the Toisan region of Canton, [[China]] and was probably introduced to the U.S. by immigrants from that region, who then made use of local vegetables in their dish.<ref>http://www.foodreference.com/html/fchopsuey.html</ref><ref>http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060823/news_lz1f23slice.html</ref>
The name is derived from the English pronunciation of the Cantonese words "''tsap seui''", which mean "mixed pieces".
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Food]]
*[[Food]]
==References==
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