Take-out chicken chow mein from an American Chinese restaurant

Chow mein is a stir-fried dish in American Chinese cuisine, consisting of noodles, meat, and cabbage and other vegetables. The pronunciation of "mein" is Cantonese and the pronunciation of "mian" is Mandarin. The character for "mian"/"mein" is 麵, which means wheat noodles. It is often served as a specific dish at westernised Chinese restaurants with soy sauce and vegetables such as celery, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts. Crunchy chow mein is a type of fried or baked chow mein sprinked on American Chinese salad dishes, such as Chinese chicken salad, in a manner similar to croutons. Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiÇŽntǐzì; also Simplified Chinese: 简化字; Traditional Chinese: 簡化字; pinyin: jiÇŽnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Standard Mandarin is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese. ... Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yuèpÄ«n; Yale: yuhtpÄ«ng; Jyutping: jyut6ping3; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1720x1312, 1481 KB) Chicken chow mein, takeout from an American Chinese restaurant called Chef Chus Peking in Forsyth County, Georgia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1720x1312, 1481 KB) Chicken chow mein, takeout from an American Chinese restaurant called Chef Chus Peking in Forsyth County, Georgia. ... Stir frying is a common Chinese cooking technique used because of its fast cooking speed. ... American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by Chinese restaurants in the United States. ... Look up Noodle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Various meats Cold Meat Salad Meat, in its broadest definition, is animal tissue used as food. ... Coronary artery bypass surgery is sometimes pronounced Cabbage(s). See also Cabbage car. ... Vegetables in a Market Venn diagram representing the relationship between (botanical) fruits and vegetables. ... American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by Chinese restaurants in the United States. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... Soy sauce (US) or soya sauce is a fermented sauce made from soybeans (soya beans), roasted grain, water and salt. ... Binomial name Apium graveolens L. Celery (Apium graveolens dulce) is a herbaceous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the coasts of western and northern Europe, most commonly in ditches and saltmarshes. ... Genera Many, see text Bamboos are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. ... Binomial name Eleocharis dulcis (Burm. ... Chinese chicken salad, as its name suggests, is a salad with chicken, popular in the United States. ... A crouton is a small piece of dry or fried bread, often seasoned, that is used to add texture and flavour to salads, notably the Caesar salad, and as an accompaniment to soups. ...

Canadian westernized Chinese restaurants may offer up to three different types of chow mein, none of which are identical to Western chow mein. Cantonese style chow mein contains deep-fried crunchy golden egg noodles, green peppers, pea pods, bok choy, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, shrimp, Chinese pork (Char siu), chicken, and beef, and is served in a thick sauce. It is the typical marquee dish in a Canadian Chinese meal. Plain chow mein is similar to Western chow mein but contains far more mung bean sprouts; some recipes may be up to one-half bean sprouts. Hong Kong style chow mein is similar to plain chow mein but is always served on a bed of deep-fried crunchy golden egg noodles. Canadian Chinese cuisine or Can/Chinese is a popular style of cooking exclusive to take-out and dine-in eateries found across Canada. ...

Chow mein is also common in Indian Chinese cuisine, having been introduced by the Chinese of Calcutta. It is usually offered Hakka or with gravy. Catering to vegetarian diets, is an Indian variant, the vegetable chow mein, which consists of noodles with cabbage, bamboo shoots, pea pods, green peppers, and carrots. Indian Chinese cuisine is the adaptation of Chinese seasoning and cooking techniques to East Indian tastes. ... The Chinese of Calcutta celebrating the Lunar New Year in Chinatown. ... Hakka people are migratory tribes of ethnic Han people originated from central China. ...

In Chinese-speaking areas, 'chow mein' is a generic term for a dish of stir-fried noodles, of which there are hundreds if not thousands of varieties. Stir frying is a common Chinese cooking technique used because of its fast cooking speed. ... Look up Noodle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

See also

• American Chinese cuisine
• Chow mein sandwich
• Yakisoba
• Lo mein

American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by Chinese restaurants in the United States. ... Originating in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1930s or 1940s, the chow mein sandwich [1], typically consists of a hamburger style bun with a brown gravy based chow mein mixture placed between and served hot, is popular on Chinese restaurant menus throughout southeastern Massachusetts and parts of neighboring Rhode... Yakisoba ), literally fried noodles, is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan. ... Lo mein (Chinese: 撈麵/撈麪, Mandarin Pinyin: lāo miàn) is a Chinese dish based on stir-fried wheat noodles. ...

External links

• Photo of Chinese-style chow mein
• Japanese yakisoba Sometimes the Japanese will call this dish chaamen, but this word usually refers to fried noodles.
• "Cub Scout Chow Mein" - recipe for Western-style chow mein