Salem’s Chop (Suey Sandwich)
So what is chop suey? Is it truly a Chinese dish, or an invention of Chinese-American restaurants? In essence it was a compromise dish, an application of Chinese techniques to mostly-familiar items and flavors.
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Cultural Assimilation and the Chow Mein Sandwich
I recently watched the very good documentary The Search for General Tso, nominally about the origins of that popular Chinese-American dish (and where it turns out to have been created comes as a bit...
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