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
• 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
• 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
• Our cooks whipped up a few of our most popular dishes: savory plates of shrimp fried rice and chicken chop suey.
  — Curtis Chin, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• This year, it was renovated and reopened with its red lanterns, vinyl booths and chop suey typeface intact.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 menu is still dominated by chow mein and chop suey but also contains Szechuan and Cantonese specialties.
  — Rebecca Stumpf, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• Today, the Butte city directory lists Pekin Noodle Parlor as the only chop suey restaurant left in business.
  — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Other eateries included chop suey and noodle dishes on their menus.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
• Today’s menu includes dishes that date to the restaurant’s inception, including 16 variations each of chow mein and chop suey.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Patrons had previously enjoyed low-cost, Americanized chop suey and chow mein.
  — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Her family ate canned chop suey, frozen fish sticks and iceberg lettuce with Wishbone dressing, but there was also applesauce from backyard trees and fresh corn, tomatoes and rhubarb from a victory garden that her parents kept up after the victory.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• The menu featured typical take-out Chinese fare: pepper steak, chop suey, lemon chicken, almond chicken and other entrees, supplemented by egg rolls, egg drop soup, fried rice and fortune cookies, UPI reported.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Sep. 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 many Americans, China evoked negative stereotypes of unsophisticated manual laborers and cheap chop suey.
  — Annelise Heinz, WSJ, 6 May 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024