Chicken Chop Suey With Fresh Ginger Root Recipe

This recipe for chicken chop suey comes from cookbook author deh-ta hsiung, who writes that it is "The classical 'chicken chop suey' dish that heralded chinese food to the western world at the end of the nineteenth century "-it is rather amazing to think that one of the world's greatest cuisines should have been represented by a dish that did not even originate in china itself, but thousands of miles away in san francisco, usa