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chop suey

Today it means: A stir-fried vegetable dish, served with pieces of beef or pork in a semi-thick sauce, and often soy sauce. Full definition →

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From Cantonese 雜碎／杂碎 (zaap⁶ seoi³, “mixed and broken”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.