{"id":361,"date":"2007-12-24T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/24\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T20:56:53","slug":"pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastrami (&#8220;Pastsami&#8221;) and Shrimp Fried Rice from Amazing 66 &#8212; more Sino-Judaic cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0990.JPG\" title=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0990.JPG\" title=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0990.JPG\" alt=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/18\/sino-judaic-cuisine-pastrami-eggrolls-and-chinese-hot-dogs\/\">Sino-Judaic culinary adventure:<\/a> as recommended by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsax.ca\">David Sax<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethedeli.com\">Save the Deli<\/a> fame, I tried the pastrami shrimp fried rice from <a href=\"http:\/\/menupages.com\/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=0&amp;restaurantid=41790&amp;neighborhoodid=24&amp;cuisineid=0\">Amazing 66<\/a> at 66 Mott Street in New York City&#8217;s Chinatown. Photo above, menu (with &#8220;pastsami&#8221; misspelled) below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/24\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-on-the-menu-from-amazing-66-in-chinatowns-mott-street\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-362\" title=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice on the menu from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/24\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-from-amazing-66-more-sino-judaic-cuisine\/pastrami-and-shrimp-fried-rice-on-the-menu-from-amazing-66-in-chinatowns-mott-street\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-362\" title=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice on the menu from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0987.JPG\" alt=\"Pastrami and shrimp fried rice on the menu from Amazing 66 in Chinatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mott Street\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, if you are wondering: it tastes a lot like Yangzhou fried rice, except that instead of roast pork (which is a it sweet), except with pastrami (which has more of a salty tang). Now the strange thing is: the reason you would make fried rice with pastrami (which is beef) instead of roast pork is to make it kosher, I suppose. But then they go and make it pastrami <em>shrimp<\/em> fried rice, which kinda defeats that whole idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sino-Judaic culinary adventure: as recommended by David Sax of Save the Deli fame, I tried the pastrami shrimp fried rice from Amazing 66 at 66 Mott Street in New York City&#8217;s Chinatown. Photo above, menu (with &#8220;pastsami&#8221; misspelled) below: Basically, if you are wondering: it tastes a lot like Yangzhou fried rice, except that [&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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","category-jews"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}