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Answer for the clue "Chinese-style dish ", 9 letters:
chow mein
Word definitions for chow mein in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, American English, from Chinese ch'ao mien "fried flour."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. chop suey served with fried noodles
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chow mein are stir-fried noodles , the name being the romanization of the Taishanese chāu-mèing. The dish is popular throughout the Chinese diaspora and appears on the menus of Chinese restaurants. It is particularly popular in the United States, Britain, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A Westernised Chinese dish of stir-fried noodles with vegetable and meat or seafood.
Usage examples of chow mein.
Ma' Fanny fixed the tea while Mom opened the containers-first the rice, then the noodles, and finally the chow mein.
But when Mom saw the chow mein she screamed and put the lid back on its container.
The only thing left was a small mound of cold chow mein on noodles long past a state of tasty crunch.
He thought of the chow mein, or a cup of coffee, but suddenly all food was repugnant to him.
He got out his carton of chow mein and a pair of chopsticks and climbed up on the hood of the truck to eat.
I got up only to gobble down burnt hamburgers and to tumble to Wing Lee's to take home some tomato-beef chow mein, which I downed with a quart of Pepsi.
I open the cartons of Japanese food and dump their contents over him, but to my surprise instead of sushi and teriyaki and hand rolls and soba noodles, chicken with cashew nuts falls all over his gasping bloodied face and beef chow mein and shrimp fried rice and moo shu pork splatter onto his heaving chest, and this irritating setback –.
I'm going to give you a bed to sleep in and a beach to play on, and if you don't object to chow mein to go and Big Macs every other night, I'm going to feed you, too.
Time out for a little chow mein, with maybe a side order of eggroll.
And there was I thinking it was the chow mein we had on the flight.
Ambassador Straphanger said, forking another generous helping of Hoogan chow mein onto his plate.
Ling stood behind the counter in front of a long black stove on which he prepared three dishes: fried rice, egg foo young, and chow mein.
Hot and spicy chicken, purse shrimp, chow mein, dried, sauteed string beans.