Love your website and your TH-cam videos. Made at least 15 of your recipes some of them hundreds of times. 7 or 8 years ago I bought a $30 carbon steel wok and a spatula, and practically lived off your recipes exclusively. But my health took a turn for the worse in the last year and I've been in a nursing home and the food here is awfull I miss all of your recipes so much.. I thank all of you at the woks of life for everything you taught me and everything you've shared with others
We're so sorry to hear that you've been unwell! Glad you've found our videos! Wishing you all the best ♥And at the very least, we're glad you were able to do some cooking with us before!
Talking about the 70’s, I remember when I was a kid, Friday night was Fish and Chip night or Chinese night. If it was Chinese night, Mum would grab her big pot and we would take it down to the local Chinese shop, and we would order Chicken Chop Suey and special fried rice, and crispy noodles and we would take our big full pot of chop suey back home and have a feast. Aaahhh they were the days in Australia. 🇦🇺 nice and simple 😊………Also thank you for your in depth information your recipes are top notch 👏👏👍
FAV Chinese dish of all time! Your dishes look so good, I wish I lived by your restaurant bc I'd be there all the time! Thanks for sharing your recipes & teaching your techniques! I'm always so excited when I see you've posted another one!
Thank you for telling us about the origins of chop suey as essentially a working-class dish. The story of a very popular Indian Dish ""Pav Bhaji" is very similar. Only, instead of railway workers, this dish was created for workers working in the textile mills of Bombay. Essentially, whatever vegetables were lying around, were boiled and mashed with lots of spices (bhaji) and served with small bun-like bread (pav). This was made in large quantities to feed thousands of workers coming out of their mills on their short lunch breaks.
This reminds me of our favorite hole-in-the-wall family restaurant that was in the neighborhood I grew up in the SF Bay Area "Moon's Chinese Kitchen." Chop Suey was a favorite.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR MOM!!! My Momma passed years ago so I always envy & love it when I see scenes like this!!! I love your family channel & being diabetic I hope to change my health out!!! Thank you again for your fabulous recipes!!!!!
Have been following you guys for a long time, and for the last 6 to 8 months have really started to cook many of the recipes, the chop suey is one of our favorites. We got so rapt up with the food we are now waiting for our copy of your cook book. Keep up the good work and have a safe and very HAPPY CHRISTMAS from our family in Tasmania to yours in USA👌👌👌
My parents (especially my dad) called almost all stir fried dishes chop suey back in the day. This was a staple at our Midwest home. I know what we made was not even close to traditional, but it was better than our regular hamburger helper dinners. He also put the fried chow mein noodles on just about any Chinese dish. Still does, haha. Thanks for the content. Love this channel!
heheh there were probably trends of Chinese restaurant names! Now it seems like there's always a "Hunan Wok". In the 90s it was "Number 1" or "New Number 1" 😂
You can find it at Chinese restaurant supply stores-search for your local Chinatown. You can also buy one from KK Discount, a local NYC shop that sells woks! Check them out! www.kkdiscount.com/ they ship!
It cooks very quickly and the other ingredients are added before the garlic can burn. You can always add the garlic later if you want more of a raw garlic flavor though!
In all of the Chinese-American cooking videos have seen, have seen None that mentions/features crispy Gau Gee Mein. Is that just a Hawaii -exclusively regional created dish. IMO... It's my personal, go-to Chinese dish... A-L-O-H-A from Hawaii
Sounds like you're looking for this! Gai see chow mein, thewoksoflife.com/pan-fried-noodles-w-chicken-gai-see-chow-mein/ but it might have a different name among Hawaiian Chinese folks. We recently posted a Chicken Chow Mein video where we briefly talk about the differences on crispy noodle dishes: th-cam.com/video/bRungB3F3Kw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bSQV36nFlYs-z1g_
Man the amount of light you have in your kitchen makes me so jealous. Also the wok burner and size of space and your knowledge of Mandarin. And your general jauntiness. Love it. ❤❤❤❤❤
I don't understand why this man doesn't have at the very least 200k subs. Blows my mind
Thank you! Spread the word :)
Love your website and your TH-cam videos. Made at least 15 of your recipes some of them hundreds of times. 7 or 8 years ago I bought a $30 carbon steel wok and a spatula, and practically lived off your recipes exclusively. But my health took a turn for the worse in the last year and I've been in a nursing home and the food here is awfull I miss all of your recipes so much.. I thank all of you at the woks of life for everything you taught me and everything you've shared with others
We're so sorry to hear that you've been unwell! Glad you've found our videos! Wishing you all the best ♥And at the very least, we're glad you were able to do some cooking with us before!
Yes, I get super excited when a restaurant has chop suey. It was my favorite as a kid in the 70s❤
I'm old enough to remember Chinese American restaurants in the '60's and '70's and I loved everything! Thanks!
Cool jazz played in the background and Chop Suey, what a combination!👍
Talking about the 70’s, I remember when I was a kid, Friday night was Fish and Chip night or Chinese night. If it was Chinese night, Mum would grab her big pot and we would take it down to the local Chinese shop, and we would order Chicken Chop Suey and special fried rice, and crispy noodles and we would take our big full pot of chop suey back home and have a feast. Aaahhh they were the days in Australia. 🇦🇺 nice and simple 😊………Also thank you for your in depth information your recipes are top notch 👏👏👍
FAV Chinese dish of all time! Your dishes look so good, I wish I lived by your restaurant bc I'd be there all the time! Thanks for sharing your recipes & teaching your techniques! I'm always so excited when I see you've posted another one!
Aw thank you! Glad to hear that you're enjoying the videos :)
Thank you for telling us about the origins of chop suey as essentially a working-class dish. The story of a very popular Indian Dish ""Pav Bhaji" is very similar. Only, instead of railway workers, this dish was created for workers working in the textile mills of Bombay. Essentially, whatever vegetables were lying around, were boiled and mashed with lots of spices (bhaji) and served with small bun-like bread (pav). This was made in large quantities to feed thousands of workers coming out of their mills on their short lunch breaks.
This reminds me of our favorite hole-in-the-wall family restaurant that was in the neighborhood I grew up in the SF Bay Area "Moon's Chinese Kitchen." Chop Suey was a favorite.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR MOM!!! My Momma passed years ago so I always envy & love it when I see scenes like this!!! I love your family channel & being diabetic I hope to change my health out!!! Thank you again for your fabulous recipes!!!!!
I love the recipes ❤Ilove the history ❤and I love the real jazz music ❤
Have been following you guys for a long time, and for the last 6 to 8 months have really started to cook many of the recipes, the chop suey is one of our favorites. We got so rapt up with the food we are now waiting for our copy of your cook book.
Keep up the good work and have a safe and very HAPPY CHRISTMAS from our family in Tasmania to yours in USA👌👌👌
That's fantastic to hear! All the way in Tasmania! Cheers! 🥰🤩
Love your chop suey!!!!! Making it tonight!!!!!!
LOVE cooking.... ABSOLUTELY HATE cleaning up.
Great recipe. Will make this week!!
This looks soooo good. I want some now!!
Looks scrumptious!
Great recipe. I cook a lot of chinese meals but I always use Chicken thighs.
My parents (especially my dad) called almost all stir fried dishes chop suey back in the day. This was a staple at our Midwest home. I know what we made was not even close to traditional, but it was better than our regular hamburger helper dinners. He also put the fried chow mein noodles on just about any Chinese dish. Still does, haha. Thanks for the content. Love this channel!
Hi! Trying it out tonight!!!!!
Always learn great technique from daddy!
Yum that reminds me of my mom she used to cook chop suey❤
Perfect!!!
I remember growing up in the 90s in Chicago. Lots of restaurants were called chop suey king.
heheh there were probably trends of Chinese restaurant names! Now it seems like there's always a "Hunan Wok". In the 90s it was "Number 1" or "New Number 1" 😂
Wow! Good stuff where can I get a wok like yours?
You can find it at Chinese restaurant supply stores-search for your local Chinatown. You can also buy one from KK Discount, a local NYC shop that sells woks! Check them out! www.kkdiscount.com/ they ship!
Yum!! Thank you.
Love chop suey
How do Chop Suey and Subgum differ or are they actually the same dish?
What are the ingredients used in the sauce?
You can find all the ingredients at the recipe link in the description :)
Doesn't' the garlic burn if. you put it in so early?>
It cooks very quickly and the other ingredients are added before the garlic can burn. You can always add the garlic later if you want more of a raw garlic flavor though!
WOW....
When I asked for chop suey the waiter’s eyes lit up. I couldn’t understand why until now.
takes a real one to recognize a real one!
In all of the Chinese-American cooking videos have seen, have seen None that mentions/features crispy Gau Gee Mein. Is that just a Hawaii -exclusively regional created dish. IMO... It's my personal, go-to Chinese dish... A-L-O-H-A from Hawaii
Sounds like you're looking for this! Gai see chow mein, thewoksoflife.com/pan-fried-noodles-w-chicken-gai-see-chow-mein/ but it might have a different name among Hawaiian Chinese folks. We recently posted a Chicken Chow Mein video where we briefly talk about the differences on crispy noodle dishes: th-cam.com/video/bRungB3F3Kw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bSQV36nFlYs-z1g_
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Man the amount of light you have in your kitchen makes me so jealous. Also the wok burner and size of space and your knowledge of Mandarin. And your general jauntiness. Love it. ❤❤❤❤❤
General jauntiness is what we're here for! 😂