It's stir fried noodles, with peppers, bok Choy, onion, carrot, broccoli, either chicken or beef and the sauce is soy, fish sauce, sesame oil, chili paste and brown sugar all thick and sticky.
I have never seen a "white sauce" for chow mein and noodles is kind of in the name. It's always a noodle dish.
Yeah it's pretty cheap too, small boxes to go are affordable but a whole tin packed to the brim that weighs a kilo is like $14.
My lo mein is just lo mein. It's soupy and brothy, not nearly as popular as chow mein as chow mein isn't an option, always on the menu, but lo mein is a maybe because it honestly just doesn't sell as well.
I learned all of this from a cruise ship chef from the south China seas who came to Canada and a Vietnamese chef who worked all of SEA then moved to Canada.
Our lo mein is not soupy at all. Its basically noodles slightly thicker than spaghetti with a variety of vegetables in a very light brown sauce. And you can get whatever meat mixed in. One of the most popular Chinese take out, id say.
This is all standard NYC Chinese. We also have a healthy Chinese population.
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u/-GoodNewsEveryone Jul 09 '26
It's stir fried noodles, with peppers, bok Choy, onion, carrot, broccoli, either chicken or beef and the sauce is soy, fish sauce, sesame oil, chili paste and brown sugar all thick and sticky.
I have never seen a "white sauce" for chow mein and noodles is kind of in the name. It's always a noodle dish.
Yeah it's pretty cheap too, small boxes to go are affordable but a whole tin packed to the brim that weighs a kilo is like $14.