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moo goo gai pan
[ moo goo gahy pan ]
noun
, Cantonese Cooking.
- a dish of sliced chicken stir-fried with button mushrooms and, often, assorted vegetables.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moo goo gai pan1
From dialectal Chinese; compare Chinese mógu Mongolian-type mushroom (probably from Mongolian; compare Dagur (Mongolian language of northwestern Manchuria) muugee “mushroom”), jī “chicken” ( Guangdong dialect gāi ), piān “slice(s)”
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