Moo goo gai pan is the Americanized version of a Cantonese dish – chicken with mushroom in oyster sauce, which can be a stir-fry dish or a dish made in a claypot. The Chinese-American version is a simple stir-fried dish with thin sliced chicken, white button mushrooms, and other vegetables. The chicken is thinly sliced as the word pan; 片 means thin slices. Popular vegetable additions include bok choy, snow peas, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts, carrots, and/or Napa cabbage .
Moo goo gai pan
Chinese (Romanized)
Chinese-American dish with chicken and mushroom
Characteristic of:
Chinese-American cuisine
Categories:
Dish
Also known as:
English:
moo goo guy pan
Wikidata ID:
Q6907058
Wikipedia title:
Moo goo gai pan
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