Identify this Chinese dish! (vanity)

[Feline_AIDS]

Tonight I went to a Chinese place and ordered "chicken chow mein" with fried rice. Why they serve rice with a noodle dish I have no idea. This is curious point # 1.

When I got home with it, it was... well, not what I thought it would be. I thought chow mein was a noodle dish.

It was essentially cabbage, lettuce, celery, a few carrots, and sprouts with pieces of chicken in it. All of it was swimming in a clear sauce. Served in a soup container. Curious point # 2.

Now, this is not a health-inspector's dream type of place. It's family owned, been there for years, there's no matriarch sleeping on a cot in the back, the American-born children take the orders and are polite. The place is spotless. I think I got someone else's order. Then again, they served this (whatever) with the fried rice I specified, so I'm not sure.

Please tell me. What did I eat?

(Possibly unrelated detail--they had this picture signed on their wall with the sign "CUSTOMER OF THE YEAR.")

[Revolting cat!]

Dog leg!

[doc1019]

Fido? Often wondered were he went.

[DEADROCK]

moo moo gai pan?

[gorush]

By the time this thread has 75 posts you’ll be hungry again.

[Slings and Arrows]

Given their Customer of the Year, I’m guessing Cream of Sum Yung Gai.

[GSWarrior]

Damn...I was hoping a picture of Lucy Liu or something.

[Sir Napsalot]

Jeebus, some kind of warning please!

[ArtDodger]

Either Bow wow gai pan or puppy almond ding

[doc1019]

Excellent Photoshopping by the way.

[Cyber Liberty]

[Winstons Julia]

Maybe it’s regional?

You wanted Chicken lo mein. You got Chicken Chow Mein.

Remember Chow Mein in the can when you were a kid?

[Proud2BeRight]

Time to go wok the dog.

[Revolting cat!]

[jcsjcm]

Exactly - you ordered Chow Mein and that’s what you got.

Lo Mein is the noodle dish which I myself don’t like. I prefer Chow Mein

[Winstons Julia]

At my local place they have a new thing called: Bang Bang Chicken.

I am scared to order it. Even with the picture.

[I see my hands]

I don't care. This is what I get at home.

[jessduntno]

“Dog leg!”

Dog Leg Left?

[Viking2002]

Don't laugh about it. I'm 49 years old, and I happen to have a can of chow mein in a can in the pantry cabinet. It's good at 2 AM when you're out of Spam and Hot Pockets. (My doctor's gonna murder me..........)

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[I see my hands]

Drool on.

[sockmonkey]

Remember Chow Mein in the can when you were a kid?

Remember it? I still like it, and keep some in my pantry in case..well, in case of I don't know what, but it's in there with the cans of chicken and dumplings..

[GladesGuru]

“moo moo gai pan?”

Might it be “Fi Do Gai Pan”?

[I see my hands]

Wifey makes the za but when I want rice I make it like this.

[sockmonkey]

Lol, You made me look..My can of chicken chow mein I am saving for I don’t know what..is “best by August 31, 2013”.

[Vendome]

Mushu?

[I see my hands]

I was freaked out the other day when I roasted a couple of habaneros and The Good Shepherd, Elvis, and an alien showed up.

[mass55th]

Shih Tzu To Yu Too

[Vendome]

[Exit148]

Sounds like “they” picked up the wrong container and put it in your bag along with the fried rice. Check their menu for their different soups to see if it matches —or wasn’t it that soupy? Lettuce? What kind?

This is right down my alley, and it is time for a lesson. But it will have to wait till tomorrow.

[Vendome]

[mkleesma]

Made this mistake many times myself - Chow mein is nasty...if you want noodles, as for Lo Mein.

[Vendome]

LOL

[shibumi]

The way you described the meat and vegetables swimming in soup is reminiscent of one of the several ways that the Vietnamese serve dog.

The “mein” in “chow mein” is supposed to be “lo mein” noodles.

It was probably the family’s pet “yardbird.”

[jobim]

I studied Mandarin in Taiwan for 4 years. Chow means ‘stir fried’ and mian means ‘noodles’. No broth, mainly fried soft noodles with some vegetables and meat.

[Feline_AIDS]

I believe it may have been moo goo gai pan.

If, however, this is "chow mein," then what the fudge is the "chow mein" at Panda Express?

I thought that lo mein was slimier, thicker noodles, while chow mein was the thinner, more pan fried, non-slimy kind.

When I google pictures of "chow mein" I see what I wanted:

When I google "moo goo gai pan," I see what I got.

[Kickass Conservative]

>”Chow means ‘stir fried’<

So my Dog is a Stir Fried - Stir Fried?

[shibumi]

There’s a great new restaurant the just opened near my house.

It’s one of those “cultural fusion” things. This one fuses Chinese with German cooking.

The food tastes great, but a half hour later, you’re HUNgry for power.

[Bullish]

Chicken Chow mein.

[Winstons Julia]

I’m NOT laughing!

Dang. Now I want some.

[I see my hands]

I saw this collapse. Is your nick' a reference to the hotel?

Holy crap! I never saw the first picture down.. I'm in it! Center in foreground with pack over right shoulder. Wow! C'est moi!

[Winstons Julia]

Also: The one dollar freezer meals of spaghetti and meatballs are surprisingly good.

[LukeL]

Typicall Lo Mein is soft noodles, Chow Mein is fried noodles, Chop Suey and Sub Gum are with rice and not noodles.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

It’s chicken chow mein. The noodles are dry and in a separate packet. Pour them into the chicken mixture. Some soy sauce helps zip it up a bit too. It’s a pretty Americanized dish, but what you had sounds like it was as authentic as chicken chow mein gets.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Names differ depending on where you are, but where I’m from (NY), the thinner rice noodles are called mei fun. Then you have lo mein, then there are the really fat noodles, which are called chow fun.

Chow mein has fried dry noodles. The ones you’ll get at the restaurant are usually quite different from the ones you’ll get at the supermarket, but one can obtain chow mein noodles (and canned chow mein) at pretty much any supermarket.

[I see my hands]

No lie!

[itsahoot]

(My doctor's gonna murder me..........)

Whether you like it or not, you are prophetic.

[null and void]

It could be...

Pu Chi

Bow Wow Gai Pan

Tastes just like chicken wing

Chow down

Lin tin tin

Leg of mutt ton

[GeronL]

nothing wrong with SPAM in my opinion

[baddog 219]

[Viking2002]

Both y'all are trying to tuck me in under a dirt blanket before I'm ready, ain't ya?

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920