Read more about the article What Is Chop Suey?
The basic ingredients for chop suey included slivers of beef, chicken or pork plus celery, onions and bean sprouts.

What Is Chop Suey?

Chop suey is to Chinese restaurants what hamburgers are to American fast-food stands. It’s hard to imagine now, but chop suey was the Howlin’ Ray’s fried chicken of its day…Okay,…

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Chinese laborers at citrus packing house, c. 1890s. Source: Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Little Gom Benn

They came to lay track. They stayed to pick oranges. And eventually prospered cooking up chop suey. The history of Gom Benn in America began with the building of the…

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