"fried noodles"; these popular, crispy, wide, pale-yellow egg noodles are often fried with chicken, pork, beef, fish, vegetables, soups, and stir fried dishes.
Chow mein is a generic Chinese term for a dish of stir-fried noodles, of which there are hundreds if not thousands of varieties. The pronunciation of "mein" is Cantonese and the pronunciation of "mian" is Mandarin. The character for "mian"/"mein" is 麵, which means wheat noodles.