{"id":3157,"date":"2010-12-22T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2010-12-22T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:36:11","slug":"hipster-brooklyn-jewish-deli-mile-end-to-serve-chinese-food-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/hipster-brooklyn-jewish-deli-mile-end-to-serve-chinese-food-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipster Brooklyn Jewish Deli, Mile End, to Serve Chinese Food on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mile-end-chinese-xmas.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3158 aligncenter\" title=\"mile-end-chinese-xmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mile-end-chinese-xmas-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mile-end-chinese-xmas-300x206.png 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mile-end-chinese-xmas.png 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mileendbrooklyn.com\/\"> Mile End Delicatessen<\/a>, which is famed for its Montreal-style Jewish food (such as smoked meat), is drawing a ream of publicity for its decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/life-and-religion\/53569\/jewish-christmas\/\">to serve Chinese food on Christmas.<\/a> (It&#8217;s of course had i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mileendbrooklyn.com\/press.html\">ts share of press<\/a> anyway. People love writing about Jewish food).<\/p>\n<p>They originally\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mileendbrooklyn\/status\/15213900274343936\">announced it on Twitter<\/a>, &#8220;We&#8217;re taking reservations for our Traditional Jewish Christmas: Egg drop soup, tongue buns, crispy duck, etc. It&#8217;s going to be fun.&#8221; And it just exploded. Reservations full, so they are doing <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mileendbrooklyn\/status\/17013622496563200\">another seating at 2 p.m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Something fun. They are doing Smoked Meat Fried Rice. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine\/\">pastrami fried rice<\/a>, but the Montreal version. Smoked meat is like a <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/04\/montreals-smoked-meat-takes-on-pastrami-in-its-home-turf\/\">cross between pastrami and corned beef<\/a>. An alternative path of evolution from New York.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting in part because I wonder if Canadian Jews have the same tradition as American Jews..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile End Delicatessen, which is famed for its Montreal-style Jewish food (such as smoked meat), is drawing a ream of publicity for its decision to serve Chinese food on Christmas. (It&#8217;s of course had its share of press anyway. People love writing about Jewish food). They originally\u00c2\u00a0announced it on Twitter, &#8220;We&#8217;re taking reservations for our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","category-jews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-OV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}