我敢跟你打包票左宗棠故乡湖南的人民从来没听过这道所谓的湖南菜。

模仿名字和菜式，但完全本地化了

Chop Suey

"杂碎"

When Chinese people talk about "chop suey" they mean animal organs chopped up together and eaten, but westerners don't eat organs and offal, so the American "chop suey" refers to a mismatched mess of foodstuffs such as cabbage, pork strips, bean sprouts, celery, green pepper, onion all fried up together.

中国人所说的“杂碎”是指动物器官一起切碎食用，而西方人不吃器官和内脏，所以美国人所说的“杂碎”是指卷心菜、猪肉条、豆芽、芹菜、青椒、洋葱等不相配的一堆食物一起炒成的。

As one can well imagine, there is no standard for this dish, any restaurant can take whatever leftovers they have and turn it into chop suey. Liang Qichao, who during 1903 visited the US, tried the dish and left us with the following evaluation: "Those eaters of chop suey lack culinary skill. Chinese people would never touch such a dish."

可以想象，这道菜是没有标准的，任何一家餐馆都可以把边角料做成杂碎。梁启超在1903年访问美国时，尝过这道菜，留给美国人的评价是：“那些吃这道菜的人缺乏烹饪技巧。中国人永远不会碰这样的菜。”

[This is] an "imagined authentic Chinese food" that in fact had never existed in China. For Americans it became the iconic Chinese dish in the mid-1900s, coming to be regarded as more and more authentic, even as it became less and less Chinese in its culinary format.

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