Just as you might find different ways that the menus list many Chinese dishes with different spellings, different ingredients, Chow York is yet another.
York, Yuk, or Yok recipies include bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and Chinese mushrooms. Although this could be pork or turkey or who knows what else.
I've never seen the name, any of the three above, anywhere around here, but some of the names come from regional or creative naming in Asia.
Here's one that's fun:
chop suey
a Chinese-style dish of meat stewed and fried with bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, and onions, and served with rice.
ORIGIN
late 19th century: from Chinese (Cantonese) tsaâp suì ‘mixed bits’.
A nice way to say, leftovers and scraps?
A local place, sometimes I'd order the "Chinese Chop Suey" it was dark and had all kinds of vegetables and meats in it. One night the waitress said, do you know what that is? I said, seems like a nice mix. She said, they take everything leftover from every order they cook, and toss it into a pot on the back of the stove, with the extra leftover sauce from the wok, when they make the fresh meals. If it doesn't sell it goes back into the cooler and they re-heat it the next day.
Well I suppose that made it interesting and tender? I never ordered it again.
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