Chop Suey or 雜菜 has a history way longer than what the article suggests. A clue to this is the Korean dish of Japchae (잡채) (the stir fried glass noodle dish in

Chop Suey or 雜菜 has a history way longer than what the article suggests. A clue to this is the Korean dish of Japchae (잡채) (the stir fried glass noodle dish in Korean restaurants), which is Sino-Korean for, you guessed it - 雜菜, when written in Hanja. This is traced back to the early 1600s in written records, purportedly invented in Korea. Given the circumstances, it was likely a Korean version of the original disk from China. Another dish that bears this name has a even more direct connection - Indonesian Cap Cai. This is clearly a localised version of the original dish that either slightly precedes or is contemporaneous with the westernised dish. So maybe this article is a history of Chop Suey in America, but definitely not Chop Suey as a dish in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japchae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japchae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_cai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_cai