Meaning of chow mein | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A westernized Chinese dish of stir-fried noodles with vegetables and meat or seafood.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person from Northeast India.
   India, countable, offensive, slang

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Examples

“I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.”

“Our tasty grooves are better than a chicken chow mein!”

“Without access to key ingredients from their homeland, Chinese immigrants in the United States working on the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s improvised dishes like chow mein and chop suey that nobody back in their native land would have recognized.”

“Since I come from the North-eastern part of India myself and belong to a minority race, I too have suffered from racism, at least in its milder forms. I’ve been called "chinky", "momo", "chowmein", and more.”

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