hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re taking a crack at a Chinese take out classic, which is a a Tomato Beef Chow Mein. For those not familiar, tomato beef chow mein as you might guess, prominently features the use of tomatoes, which happen to be in season right now here in CA. If you don’t happen to be so lucky though, you can also totally make use of some canned whole tomatoes, too (which actually might be preferable than an out of season tomato, since it’ll have been picked and preserved at its peak ripeness).

Our flavor palette is mostly going to be drawing from a number of familiar pantry sauces that you’ll likely recognize here. There will however be one VERY American addition, which is a little bit of ketchup for that classic form of sweetness you’ll know and love, cut with a bit of sweet chili sauce, for an interesting sweet and savory addition. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday June 11th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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