Familiar Beef and Tomato Lo Mein

‘Mein’ is Cantonese for ‘noodles’, an everyday food eaten in southern China. However, in America it has been transformed into a typical Westernized Chinese combination. In China itself beef is rarely eaten, and tomatoes were not a staple in Chinese cuisine until one hundred years ago. In the West both foods are widely popular, and Cantonese restaurants, always alert to what the customers want, happily obliged by haphazardly mixing together much bigger portions than any Chinese person would