• 400 GRAM PORK
• 1 ONION
• 1/2 WHITE CABBAGE
• 2 TABLE SPOONS SOY SAUCE
• 1 TABLE SPOON SUGAR
• GREEN CELERY
• 1/2 TURNIP
• 1 TABLESPOON CORN STARCH
• 400 GRAM CHINESE NOODLES

• 200 GRAM TOFU
• 400 GRAM MINCED BEEF
• 1/2 DECILITER SOY SAUCE
• 1 RED CHILI PEPPER
• 1 ONION
• 4 GREEN ONIONS
• 1 TABLESPOON SUGAR
• 2 TOMATOES, in wedges

Cut the pork and turnip in cubes, chop the onion, the celery and the cabbage. Fry the onion during 5 minutes, add the meat, fry 5 more minutes. Add turnip, cabbage, soy sauce, sugar and 1 deciliter water. Cook slowly for 15 minutes. Dissolve the corn starch in a tablespoon of water and add to the mixture, heat one more minute; add then the green celery. Serve with Chinese noodles.

Chop suey is normally served as a Chinese dish but it is actually mainly served in the United States, even though mostly prepared by Chinese immigrants. The word chop suey in Chinese means something like "left-overs" ťor "mixed pieces" and thus is the Chinese equivalent of the (also not really Indonesian) nasi goreng.

You can read more about the Chinese-American cooking in the book "The fortune cookie chronicles"ť by Jennifer Leigh.

Chop the pepper, the onions and the green onions. Fry for 5 minutes. Add the mince meat and fry 10 minutes more. Cut the tofu in cubes. Add the tofu, the sugar and the soy sauce and heat for 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and heat 1 minute more. Serve with rice and a cucumber salad and decorate with tomato slices.