Besides crispy egg rolls, piping hot wonton soup, and pleasantly chewy fried rice, chow mein, along with its slurpable cousin, lo mein, are two of the cuisine's biggest players. To the untrained ...

The main difference between chow mein and lo mein seems like it should be right there in the name, at least if you're fluent in Cantonese. Chow is an English transliteration for a term meaning ...