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Chop suey

2 stages from Cantonese to English.

Today it means a Chinese-American stir-fried dish of mixed vegetables, meat, and sauce
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Stage 1 of 2
tsap sui
Cantonese · medieval
"mixed pieces"
literally "mixed bits" or "odds and ends"
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Stage 2 of 2
chop suey
English · 1800s-1900s
"a stir-fried dish of mixed vegetables and meat"
adopted through Chinese immigrant cooking in the United States
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