Posted on 12/21/2020 2:42:54 PM PST by mylife
The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on Asian restaurants. This holiday season, why not adopt a Jewish tradition by eating Chinese food?
Here’s a very modest proposal for the holidays: On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, don’t toil over the stove and prepare your usual massive feast for the family. Instead, use the pandemic as an excuse to take a page from Jewish Americans and order some damn good Chinese takeout.
Your local mom-and-pop purveyor of kung pao chicken and sticky rice could probably use the business: Though all restaurants across the U.S. have suffered due to coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions, Chinese restaurants have been hit particularly hard.
According to Womply, a data subscription service, Asian American restaurants have closed at a far higher rate than non-Asian restaurants. And compared with other Asian restaurants, Chinese eateries had the highest rates of closure at 61%.
Some have suggested the dip in business is at least partially due to consumer prejudice toward Asians and Asian Americans in the wake of coronavirus.
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Same as non Kosher delis, and Kosher.
Because they're open.
The whole article is ridiculous, people are people and we all eat.
Really? My how things have changed. My point was about the quality of restaurant Chinese food.
I’ve notice by and large, that liberals tend not to do much home cooking.
My sister-in-law is a huge fan of Chinese food and to this day she still razzes me about the post card I sent her years ago from Hong Kong telling her of the fantastic restaurant we ate at the night before.
I don’t think Chinese food is kosher.
Not sure about all of it, the fish has to be OK and the Chicken.
Fa ra ra ra ra..........
I don’t know about eating Chinese takeout for Christmas, but I have to admit that when I was in grad school my wife and I almost always went to Indian food buffets for Thanksgiving. It actually worked out pretty well because my wife is not a very good cook and I don’t really care for turkey very much.
A friend of mine's wife is Chinese American and her family used to run a Chinese restaurant.
They would often get Jewish guests who would occasionally ask for things like Pork Fried Rice and then when they got it exclaimed their surprise that there was pork in the dish, but eat it anyway because they didn't want it to go to waste.
There are Jews and then there are observant Jews.
They are trying to keep Democrat leaning industries alive. Most Chinese vote Dem. Most other restaurant owners vote Republican.
I thought General Tso’s chicken came from Taiwan.
Can I come to dinner?
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