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This Is The Year To Embrace 'Jewish Christmas' And Order Chinese Food
huffington post ^ | 12/21/2020 | brittany wong

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
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To: mylife
My local Chinese employed Mexican cooks, and local Mexican employed Chinese cooks..

Same as non Kosher delis, and Kosher.

61 posted on 12/21/2020 4:19:51 PM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: Fido969
I grew up in a Jewish community, and the Chinese restaurants were always packed on Christmas and New Years

Because they're open.

62 posted on 12/21/2020 4:22:27 PM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: SJackson

The whole article is ridiculous, people are people and we all eat.


63 posted on 12/21/2020 4:26:17 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Really? My how things have changed. My point was about the quality of restaurant Chinese food.


64 posted on 12/21/2020 4:32:54 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: mylife

I’ve notice by and large, that liberals tend not to do much home cooking.


65 posted on 12/21/2020 4:34:44 PM PST by simpson96
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To: PIF

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.


66 posted on 12/21/2020 4:35:44 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: mylife

I don’t think Chinese food is kosher.


67 posted on 12/21/2020 4:51:04 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Spok

Not sure about all of it, the fish has to be OK and the Chicken.


69 posted on 12/21/2020 5:00:51 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Fa ra ra ra ra..........


70 posted on 12/21/2020 5:01:40 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

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.


72 posted on 12/21/2020 5:09:11 PM PST by Qilin
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To: malach
"Jews who eat in Chinese restaurants are not “keeping kosher”."

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.

74 posted on 12/21/2020 5:23:47 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: mylife

They are trying to keep Democrat leaning industries alive. Most Chinese vote Dem. Most other restaurant owners vote Republican.


75 posted on 12/21/2020 5:30:50 PM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: mylife
I'll stick with the rib roast I have planed.
77 posted on 12/21/2020 5:39:10 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Dear Clare, The awkward time is almost over. Love, Normal Americans)
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To: SamAdams76

I thought General Tso’s chicken came from Taiwan.


78 posted on 12/21/2020 5:41:27 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Dear Clare, The awkward time is almost over. Love, Normal Americans)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Can I come to dinner?


79 posted on 12/21/2020 5:42:12 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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