Chop suey (/ˈtʃɒpˈsuːi/) is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, 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 sauce.
Likewise, is Chop Suey Chinese or Japanese?
Chop Suey is a classic American-Chinese dish with murky origins. As one legend has it, Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chang, visiting San Francisco’s Palace Hotel in the 1890s, requested vegetables with a bit of meat “job suey,” or “in fine pieces,” and chef Joseph Herder obliged.
Similarly one may ask, what does chop suey taste like?
Chop suey, however, has a much thicker sauce. It tends to be either very sweet or salty and sticks to the ingredients to pack in the flavor. All in all, the differences between the two are slight, which is where the confusion has come from.