Suey! Look out! Sue.

He ordered a chop suey.

I want you all to stop making chop suey, because I am the original creator and sole proprietor of chop suey.

They've never heard of chop suey in China.

So, why and where did chop suey come from?

Who came up with the idea of chop suey?

Youth of the Nation System of a Down Chop Suey!

How do you do that after all that chop suey?

The average native of any city in China knows nothing of chop suey.

I like to say chop suey is the biggest culinary joke one culture ever played on another, because chop suey, translated into Chinese, means jaahp seui, which, translated back, means odds and ends.

Why don't someone go to the Chinaman's and bring back a load of chop suey?

So in a way, because the Chinese were attacked, chop suey was created as a defense mechanism.

For example beef with broccoli, egg rolls, General Tso's Chicken, fortune cookies, chop suey, the take out boxes.

So, these people are going around China asking for chop suey, which is sort of like a Japanese guy coming here and saying,

So it took about 30 years before the Americans realized that chop suey is actually not known in China, and as this article points out,

According to the New York Times in 1904, there was an outbreak of Chinese restaurants all over town, and ... the city has gone 'chop suey' mad.

But the granddaddy of all the Chinese American dishes we probably ought to talk about is chop suey, which was introduced around the turn of the 20th century.

And they have things like risotto chop suey. My personal favorite of all the restaurants I've encountered around the world was this one in Brazil, called Kung Food.

Back then it was a way to show you were sophisticated and cosmopolitan a guy who wanted to impress a girl could take her on a chop suey date.

Now I've found him and I want my recipe back, and I want everyone to stop making chop suey, or pay me for the right to do the same.

Mr. Coe's last book, Chop Suey, was about Chinese cuisine in America, while Ms. Ziegelman told the story of life in a Lower East Side tenement through food in her book 97 Orchard.

But, you know, it's very easy to overlook the smaller characters. For example, Lem Sen, who introduced chop suey, Chef Peng, who introduced General Tso's Chicken, and all the Japanese bakers who introduced fortune cookies.