In article >, Alf
Christophersen > wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:15:06 GMT, Phil >
> wrote:
>
> >likely to be a southern [Chinese] thing, and/or the majority of the
> >Chinese immigrants to America, until fairly recently, were from the
> >South, and spoke Cantonese.
>
> Has always heard that Chop Suey is an american dish, created by
> Chinese immigrants.

It's probably adapted to some extent to the battery of available
American vegetables (and some transplanted Chinese ones) but the safe
statement seems to be that Chinese immigrant cooks cooked chop suey in
19th-century America, but that is not sufficient proof of its
conception then and there.

Phil