Chinese-Fijian Fusion · Takeaway Classic

Fiji Chop Suey

📷 Closely related photo — Photo: Eli Hodapp from Naperville, United States / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

This stir-fry traces back to Fiji's Chinese settler community, yet it now shows up on nearly every Suva takeaway menu alongside curry and roti.

Meat and whatever vegetables are on hand are stir-fried with soy sauce into a saucy mix served over rice, fast and cheap from takeaway counters across Suva and Nadi; the noodle version goes by chow mein.

Why it's made this way: Chinese market gardeners and shopkeepers settled in Fiji from the early 20th century onward, and their stir-fry cooking became so embedded in everyday Fijian eating that chop suey now counts as a local takeaway staple rather than a foreign dish.