Cantonese Soft Fried Chow Mein(Kwangtung Chow Mein)

The Chinese knew onions and many vegetables long before they reached the Occident.

The onion first reached the Greeks and Romans by way of Babylon and the Romans brought it to Germania in the first century A.D.

It took until the late Middle Ages, however, to be accepted widely since its strong smell was too pungent for the times.

And at court, eating onion was considered coarse and crude.

How different today after the Swabians and their Alsatian neighbors had invented a delectable recipe for onion pie, not unlike quiche.