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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas
There is a good reason why you don't see "Chop Suey" on the menu of any authentic Chinese restaurant. It isn't really authentic Chinese cuisine, it is Chinese American first showing up among Chinese vegetable field workers in the 1890s.
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Retired_in_Texas - We had a running comment a good ways back on the thread about all the "Chop Suey" signs on the Chinese restaurants back in the 1930's.
We wondered what the attraction was to chop suey back then. I wanted to scout around Chinatown to see if any of the old signs were still around. Not a one is still there.
The only Chop Suey sign which seems to still exist around L.A. is on the Far East Cafe in Little Tokyo:
Wikipedia
By the way, about a year ago I asked my wife (she's Chinese) what chop suey was and she looked at me like I was nuts.
Not the first time that has ever happened though.