Seafood Chop Suey Tonight
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
Philippines
April 5, 2017 7:10am CST
Tonight's dinner was seafood chop suey. Ingredients were cauliflower, bell pepper, carrot, cabbage, sayote (chayote), fish tofu and squid rings.
Chop suey is versatile because the vegetables and meat can vary depending on what's in your fridge, like when you want to use up odds and ends before your next trip to the market.
You can also use chicken, fish fillet, shrimp, pork, chicken liver, quail eggs, snowpeas, broccoli, baby bok choy, young corn, canned mushroom, then flavor with cubes, oyster sauce, etc.
Then, if you have leftover chop suey, you can add noodles and turn it into pancit for the next meal.
If you have eaten or cooked chop suey, what do you like or don't like in it?
If you haven't or don't like chop suey, would you rather eat seafood or vegetables?
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22 responses
@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
5 Apr 17
When I have chop suey it is usually with chicken and whatever vegetables that I have on hand. I do like the seafood chop suey with shrimp.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
it's a great solution when you have a little of this, a little of that.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
i miss quail eggs, but they're a bother to peel.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere even i must increase my intake of vegetables and fruits. I do not really consume much of healthy food
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
@Nawsheen today, i remembered the greek yogurt and ripe mangoes i bought several days ago, so i blended them, poured into a glass and added ice.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
i know i need to eat more fish, fruit and vegetables with less rice
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
5 Apr 17
I like chop suey but I don´t like tofu. As for the rest, I like it all and, as you say, it depends on what I have in my fridge.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
what i don't like is the young corn. if they put corn kernels, i'd prefer that, though i haven't seen chop suey with corn kernels yet!
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere I have never seen it with corn of any kind.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
@marguicha i think it is also called baby corn, which can be fresh or canned, but i never liked the taste of it on anything. i'd rather eat boiled corn on a cob, or canned corn kernels.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
given the choice between chicken liver and pork liver, i'd choose chicken liver. i guess you prefer beef over pork?
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere We do not eat pork at all, the family of my husband was Jewish and he prefer not to eat pork. I do not like liver of any kind.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
yes, chop suey is stir-fried assorted vegetables
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere Regardless, I still like it. I do think it should be in the right amount of sauce.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
with chop suey, i prefer just the right amount of sauce.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere Never had eaten seafood chop suey.I think I will have fried shrimp.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
shrimp is hipon. a shrimp dish i remember from my childhood was shrimp cooked in sprite (halabos na hipon)
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
6 Apr 17
@hereandthere So you use sprite instead of water when preparing halabos na hipon?
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
11 Apr 17
i might do it again to use up the fish tofu
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@epiffanie (11327)
• Australia
12 Apr 17
@hereandthere oh I love fish tofu! .. I mix it with fried rice .. yum!
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
when it comes to fish, i prefer it fried. sometimes i buy shrimp or fish fillet.
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere We have our traditional fish curries rather than the fried ones
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
we have a lot of everyday dishes from the chinese.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere I really enjoy Chinese food but we don't go out so often now. We used to have a very reasonably priced Chinese quite close by but when we lived somewhere else. We used to go nearly every week and it was always packed.
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
5 Apr 17
Don't like chop suey. But wouldn't eat seafood or vegetables either. Yuck. Lol
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
i do eat seafood and vegetables, but i know i need to eat more because i tend to prefer chicken and pork. what meat do you eat?
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
5 Apr 17
@hereandthere i only have "seafood" once or twice a month and that's only scallops frp8m one place..
I eat ground beef.. a little too much maybe. Lol
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
@Courtlynn i've tasted scallops in restaurants and liked them.
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
5 Apr 17
it's colorful and you have different textures.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
6 Apr 17
I have never tried fish tofu. Sounds good I never had this.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
8 Apr 17
I used to ate those few months when ever I got to a food kiosk here. But if it's soy sauce I don't usually buy it because of my uric acid problem.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Apr 17
my mother (+) cooked a superb chop suey for us, and her cooking skills were not inherited by me because i cook just simple dishes. my sister cooks but not as good as my late mother.
@almostoveryou (4954)
• Philippines
6 Apr 17
i normally include squid balls, chicken liver, and small bits of pork. i'll try the fish fillet next time! my husband is allergic to shrimp so we can't have that.
