a Chinese dish consisting of slices of chicken sautéed with black mushrooms and assorted vegetables
Origin of moo goo gai pan
Chin, literally , mushroom chicken slicemoo goo gai pan
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moo goo gai pan
noun
A Cantonese dish of chicken, mushrooms, vegetables, and spices sautéed together.
Origin of moo goo gai pan
Cantonese mo4 gu1 gai1 pin3 akin to Chinese (Mandarin) mógu jī piàn mógu mushroom jī chicken ( from Middle Chinese kjiaj ) piàn slice ( from Middle Chinese phjian` )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural moo goo gai pans)
- An Americanized version of the Cantonese dish, usually a simple stir-fried dish consisting of sliced or cubed chicken with white button mushrooms and other vegetables such as snow peas, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and Chinese cabbage.
Origin
From Cantonese names of the ingredients: è˜‘è‡ (mo4 gu1, “button mushrooms"); 鸡 (gai1, “chicken"); 片 (pin3, “slice")
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