How to Use chop suey in a Sentence

chop suey

noun
  • The restaurants served a chop suey drowning in gravy and spiced like curry.
    — Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Pair with charcuterie and cheeses, or with an Asian dish such as chop suey.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The owner of the chop suey joint where Alice and her friends ate that night told police of a man ogling them in their booth.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • This year, it was renovated and reopened with its red lanterns, vinyl booths and chop suey typeface intact.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Other eateries included chop suey and noodle dishes on their menus.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
  • Yes, the same chop suey found in every Chinese-American restaurant from coast to coast.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Yes, the same chop suey found in every Chinese-American restaurant from coast to coast.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The neon chop suey sign that's been a fixture for decades and usually casts a wild rainbow glow over First Street is dimmed.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 May 2021
  • But next to it were the English words written in chop suey font, a style that in recent years has been derided as overly exoticizing.
    — Frank Shyong, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Now, in the Bay Area’s Chinese neighborhoods, old-school chop suey houses exist side by side with farm-to-table restaurants.
    — Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Changing hands multiple times in its 90-year history, the Mayflower has served dishes from hamburgers to chop suey.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Look out for dishes like chop suey of langoustines—the tender langoustines come in a rich fish velouté topped with a halo of fluffy coriander and alfalfa foam—or green peas with baby scallops and green caviar.
    — Eddi Fiegel, Robb Report, 7 May 2026
  • Menu staples include egg foo young, chop suey and fortune cookies that appeal to Americans but aren’t as widely popular in China.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This resulted in dishes such as chop suey, which is as close to authentic Chinese cuisine as SpaghettiOs are to Italian.
    — Douglas Wong, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Today, the Butte city directory lists Pekin Noodle Parlor as the only chop suey restaurant left in business.
    — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • All over California, Chinese and Italian food was expanding beyond chop suey and spaghetti with giant meatballs.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • More than 300 Chicago white girls have sacrificed themselves to the influence of chop suey joints during the last year, according to police statistics.
    — Monica Eng, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • And the show uses hot dogs and chop suey, which gourmets may mock as basic or culinary abominations, as examples of how immigrants must often fit themselves into other people’s boxes in order to make a life here.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 15 June 2020
  • The video frequently cuts to motel rooms packed with fans, where the band leads the mosh pit and takes a short break to eat actual chop suey; at one point, during the chorus, their bodies overlap each other’s like a Cronenbergian metal nightmare.
    — Jeremy Gordon, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Matthews, a 20-year-old flour packer at the Pillsbury mills, had been downtown with two women friends that Saturday night for a show at the Isis Theater, followed by a stop for some chop suey.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The cuisine survived the era of chop suey houses and anti-Chinese sentiment brought on by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There are also some genuinely suspenseful beats amid the more outrageous flourishes, which include the killer concealing a chainsaw under their cloak and a karate instructor blaming a violent assault on having ingested bad chop suey.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
  • For many Americans, China evoked negative stereotypes of unsophisticated manual laborers and cheap chop suey.
    — Annelise Heinz, WSJ, 6 May 2021
  • At the turn of the 20th century, Chinese restaurants began proliferating across the nation, first in Chinatowns, and then elsewhere, propelled by the popularity of chop suey, their most famous culinary invention.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Introducing American Chinese food American Chinese cuisine can be traced back to the 19th century, when dishes like chop suey gained unexpected popularity.
    — Saleah Blancaflor /, NBC News, 21 May 2018
  • For American diners of diverse backgrounds, chop suey struck an enticing balance between novelty and decipherability, which propelled it to national popularity even as the US government moved to exclude Chinese laborers from entering the country in 1882.
    — Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026

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