Mom’s Pepper Steak

This pepper steak, which is more like an Asian take on a Southern beef stew, remains on the steam table to this day. I don’t quite know how to define this dish—it has Thai influences, sure, but also some parts of it are Chinese American coded, while others feel truly Southern. Whatever the case, this has been a staple of International Market for decades. There’s one customer who has been coming in since he was a kid—and he is now well into adulthood—and he only orders this dish. This recipe