Today I made my grandmas chow mein. Our family tradition is to have chow mein on ones birthday. Since it was my moms birthday my grandma showed me how to make her chow mein. Our family believes chow mein represents longevity, so we all have to have some to wish long life upon ones birthday. Chicken is used in our chow mein, which signifies health. We also have chow mein for Chinese new year. It has been done in past generations as far as my grandma can remember. In my opinion the best part about making this chow mein is eating it with our whole family, because everyone enjoys it. There were no challenges making this, because my grandma was a great teacher. I think the greatest success making this was that our whole family came over and even my little picky cousin enjoyed it. My grandma usually is the one that makes it, so me making it and people liking it as much as when she makes it made me proud. Overall I think this was my best meal I made so far.
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