where was chop suey originated?

Question

i need to know where chop suey originated

Answer 1

Chop suey is a purely American dish. Some think it originated when the Chinese came to America and worked on building the railways. Some opened restaurants for their country men because most came over without wives. Soon white workers were going to the chinese owned eating places. They couldn't pronounce the chinese name for whatever they were eating and started calling it Chop Suey. At that time, chop suey was whatever was left in the kitchen.

Answer 2

Chop suey is a Chinese dish which literally means mixed pieces. It usually consists of meats (often chicken, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of deep-fried noodles.

Chop suey as found in North America is not an authentic Chinese dish, but part of American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. It is also a relatively new addition to Indian Chinese cuisine.

Origin
There are various colorful stories about the origin of Chop Suey. It is alleged to have been invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the United States Transcontinental railway in the 19th century and has also been cited in New York City's Chinatown restaurants since the 1880s. Other sources say that a Chinese dignitary's cook, visiting the United States invented it. [1]

But Davidson (1999) characterizes these stories as "culinary mythology", citing Anderson (1988), who traces it to a dish of Taishan, the homeland of many Chinese immigrants. Regardless of its ultimate origin, in China itself, it is often called "American chop suey" (not to be confused with pasta dish described below).

Answer 3

its americanized chinese food, just like when u eat sweet and sour, hot and sour, egg foo young. Real chinese restaurants dont actually sell these, it was created to suit the north american style of eating