Serving with chop suey (4)
I believe the answer is:
rice
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">serving with chop suey</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for rice that I've seen before include "Cultivated food grass" , "Cereal food" , "Cereal grass" , "It grows in paddy-fields" , "Staple food -- English lyricist, b. 1944" .)