Key facts
- Course
- Main course
- Place of origin
- China
- Region or state
- Guangdong
- Serving temperature
- Hot
- Main ingredients
- Noodles , soy sauce , vegetables
- Variations
- Chicken, pork, beef, shrimp, tofu
- Traditional chinese
- 炒麵
- Simplified chinese
- 炒面
- Hakka
- cauˋ mien
- Literal meaning
- Stir-fried noodles
- Hanyu pinyin
- chǎo miàn
- Ipa
- [ʈʂʰa ̀ ʊ.mjɛ ̂ n]
- Romanization
- cauˋ mien
- Yale romanization
- cháau mihn
- Jyutping
- caau min
- Hokkien poj
- chhá-mī
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- course
- main course
- Commons category
- Chow mein
- native label
- 炒麵
- fabrication method
- stir frying
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Encyclopedic overview
Cookbook: Chow mein Media: Chow mein
Chow mein (/ˈtʃaʊ ˈmeɪn/ and /ˈtʃaʊ ˈmiːn/; simplified Chinese: 炒面; traditional Chinese: 炒麵; Mandarin Pinyin: chǎomiàn; Cantonese Yale: cháaumihn) is a dish of Chinese stir-fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes meat or tofu. Over the centuries, variations of chǎomiàn were developed in many regions of China; there are several methods of frying the noodles and a range of toppings can be used. It was introduced in other countries by Chinese immigrants. The dish is popular throughout the Chinese diaspora and appears on the menus of most Chinese restaurants abroad. It is particularly popular in India, Nepal, the UK, and the US.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chow mein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.