This is a bit of a long shot, but I am trying to recreate a dish that I grew up adoring and have never found anywhere else.
As a kid, my family used to eat at a place called Lai Lai Dumpling House in Houston's Chinatown. There was a dish that was called "assorted meat, pan-fried noodles," a maddeningly generic description, much like many Americanize Chinese dishes that dispense with the actual name of the original dish. The best I can figure is that it was something like Shànghǎi cūchǎo. The noodles were relatively thick and similar to what you find in lo mien, but they were partially fried, with some portions of the long noodles fried crispy, but others closer to the center being softer. The whole thing was covered in a dark, soy based sauce much like the standard American Chinese lo mien, with pork, beef, chicken, onions, and some other assorted vegetables.
Would anyone be able to give me some more possible dishes that this might describe? I know that the Chinese community in Houston at the time was strongly Taiwanese if that at all helps.
this is a low quality photo of the dish, bottom right
https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/-hkl-ztIyWcNLsGIRueUQw/348s.jpg
