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When's the last time you had a good old-fashioned bowl of chop suey?

>> No.14815654

fuck China

>> No.14815656

WAKE UP

>> No.14815662

>>14815656
So you're a Rage Against the Machine fan?

>> No.14815681
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>>14815662

>> No.14815688

>>14815681
Why do you own this book

>> No.14815730

>>14815688
self-help

>> No.14815748

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n91lSO0wJQ
reminded me of this for some reason

>> No.14815753

>>14815748
lol I remember watching that as a kid

>> No.14815771

why does it look so soggy and pale

>> No.14815775
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>>14815651
THAT'S NOT REAL CHOP SUEY. pic related is authentic chop suey

>> No.14815787

>>14815775 why are americans so stupid?

>> No.14815795

>>14815771
Because that's what chop suey is. It's the most bland and possibly worst americanized chinese food item.

Basically it's cheap frozen veggies with a small amount of soy sauce and msg cooked in a wok with some broth. It was an invention of necessity at the time for early chinese restaurants as a way to make do with the ingredients available to them, save cost, and meet the average palate needs of someone from Indiana in the 1950s.

It deserves no attention and should never be ordered. I hate chop suey.

>> No.14815809

>>14815795
Sounds good to me

>> No.14816094

>>14815787
You don't prefer the original?

>> No.14816121

>>14815775
that's ghoulish

>> No.14816123

>>14815795
i like it
esp when it's loaded with bean sprouts

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>>14816121
WRONG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chop_suey
pic related is authentic goulash

>> No.14816139

>>14816133
looks like the same thing but with cheese

>> No.14816145

Recently, actually. I had forgotten how good that broth is. I also had Szechwan beef, and it had ACTUAL beef in it. Like fat chunks with discernible grain. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen that in cheap chinese before. I think covid is forcing them to try to hang on to customers by improving the food. It was dang good.

>> No.14816147

>>14816139
You are being trolled. Pretty poorly at that. But you knew that...

>> No.14816148

>>14815775
What?

>> No.14816186

>>14816148
The chinese stole chop suey from the italians just like they stole noodles.

>> No.14816329

>>14816186
Huh?

>> No.14816402

>>14815795
Seems like a reasonably well-balanced meal, all things considered.

>> No.14816874

>>14816186
You're late for your therapy session Tony

>> No.14816989

>>14815654
GRABABRUSHANDPUTALITTLE MAKE UP

>> No.14817109

>>14815651
a couple years sadly. wish i could have it again

>> No.14817123

>>14815651
Do Americans really?

>> No.14817755

>>14815656
WHY'D YOU LEAVE YOUR KEYS UP ON THE TABLE

>> No.14817786

>>14815651
>When's the last time you had a good old-fashioned bowl of chop suey?
>posts picture of moo goo gai pan, not chop suey

>> No.14817794

>>14817109
Chop suey isn't that complicated a dish. Chicken, carrots, onions, mushrooms, bok choy, bean sprouts, garlic, and ginger. Velvet your chicken while you chop all your other ingredients. Make your sauce from water or stock, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, and corn starch. If you want heat, add some sambal. If you have any knowledge for the fundamentals of cooking it should be pretty easy to take it from there.

>> No.14817805

>>14815795
>Basically it's cheap frozen veggies with a small amount of soy sauce and msg cooked in a wok with some broth
Uh no, it's canned veggies, something that is pantry stable for long periods. Its not making do with ingredients that are cheap or leftover, whatsoever. In the US, we weren't growing bok choy, nor bamboo sprouts, water chestnuts, nor baby corn. They were canned becuase they were imported ingredients that wouldn't sell well or last well like fresh sprouts.

Sad you hate it, and I don't make it very often or even put it in my top 20 chinese foods, but your hateful attitude is stupid. Just say you don't like canned food, those particular ingredients or soy sauce, because that's the only thing wrong with chop suey.