Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States (2024)

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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States 🔍

Oxford University Press, USA, Chop Suey, 0

Andrew Coe 🔍

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“In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40, 000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian ingredients. He traces the Chinese migration to the East Coast, highlighting that crucial moment when New York "Bohemians" discovered Chinese cuisine--and for better or worse, chop suey. Along the way, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origins; reveals why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; shows how President Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new range of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like those served in Beijing or Shanghai. The book also explores how American tastes have been shaped by our relationship with the outside world, and how we've relentlessly changed foreign foods to adapt to them our own deep-down conservative culinary preferences. Andrew Coe's Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States is a fascinating tour of America's centuries-long appetite for Chinese food. Always illuminating, often exploding long-held culinary myths, this book opens a new window into defining what is American cuisine.”

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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States (2024)

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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States examines Chinese-American relationships from the point of view of what our people thought of Chinese food during the 200-odd year history of Sino-American relations. At first, it was thought that Chinese food was filthy and consisted of such undesirable ...

What is the history of chop suey in America? ›

Chop Suey is an American Chinese dish which was created by Cantonese immigrants when they came to the US in the past. Chop Suey was adopted from Cantonese style stir fried vegetables dish but undergone various levels of alternation to make it more suitable for American taste.

What is the history of Chinese food in the United States? ›

Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California Gold Rush (1848–1855), which brought 20,000–30,000 immigrants across from the Canton (Guangdong) region of China. The first Chinese restaurant in America is debated. Some say it was Macau and Woosung, while others cite Canton Restaurant.

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What does chop suey mean in America? ›

Chop suey (usually pronounced /ˈtʃɒpˈsuːi/) is a dish from American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, generally consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery, and bound in a starch-thickened ...

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What does chop suey mean in Chinese food? ›

The name 'chop suey' comes from the Cantonese phrase tsap sui, which translates to odds and ends and the Mandarin term tsa sui, which means miscellaneous broken pieces. The origins of the name should give you a bit of a hint about what kind of ingredients you'll find in chop suey and how it's made!

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What does chop suey mean in China? ›

The name in several Chinese dialects can be translated to “odds and ends,” an ancestor of the back-of-the-fridge dish that could be adjusted inexpensively and to fit your preferred flavors. According to other stories, chop suey was, like crab Rangoon and fortune cookies, truly the product of American immigration.

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Where did the Chinese chop suey come from? ›

This was, perhaps, an exaggeration; but chop suey was indeed of Chinese origin. Where exactly its roots lay has been debated; but it was probably first cooked in Taishan, in Guangdong, where most early immigrants had grown up.

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What is the difference between American chop suey and Chinese chop suey? ›

The American Chopsuey is sweet and sour with a bright orangish-red colour. It is like a one-pot macaroni pasta meal cooked with beef and vegetables in a sweet tomato sauce. Whereas the Chinese Chop Suey is savoury and spicy, served with rice or noodles.

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What is the most ordered Chinese food in the US? ›

Popular Chinese Dishes. General Tso Chicken – According to Grubhub, this sweet fried chicken dish is the most popular Chinese food in America. It's also unhealthy, considering that it is deep-fried and the recipe demands tons of sugar.

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Chinese cuisine is one of the oldest in the world. It is believed to have originated in the central part of China and is one of three cuisines — the others being Turkish and French — that influenced dishes in countries throughout East Asia.

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Regardless of its dubious authenticity, such adaptation of Chinese cooking to American palates was a key element in the proliferation and popularization of Chinese cuisine in the United States. Throughout the early 20th century, “Chinese” dishes became sweeter, boneless, and more heavily deep-fried.

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How do you describe chop suey? ›

a Chinese-style American dish consisting of small pieces of meat, chicken, etc., cooked together with bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, or other vegetables and seasoning, in a gravy, often served with rice and soy sauce.

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What is the introduction of chop suey? ›

Chop suey likely originated as essentially a dish of leftovers (much like Italian minestrone), made of vegetables, cuttings from meat used in a previous meal (usually pork or chicken but sometimes beef), and miscellaneous items such as bean sprouts and canned water chestnuts.

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What is the cultural significance of food in China? ›

Food is an important part of daily life for Chinese people. Chinese not only enjoy eating but believe eating good food can bring harmony and closeness to the family and relationships. Shopping daily for fresh food is essential for all Chinese cooking.