{"id":365,"date":"2007-12-25T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/25\/christmas-chinese-food-and-a-movie-an-american-jewish-tradition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:12:41","slug":"christmas-chinese-food-and-a-movie-an-american-jewish-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/christmas-chinese-food-and-a-movie-an-american-jewish-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, Chinese food and a movie: An American Jewish Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Christmas, which is the single busiest day for some Chinese restaurants in the whole year  (in New York, Miami, parts of LA and San Francisco) &#8212; driven by the Jews. At Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side Shun Lee, for example, it is twice as busy as the next busiest day. Arguably, it&#8217;s as an American Jewish a tradition as Seder on Passover. Some others have riffed off of Christmas and Chinese food. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koshercomedy.com\/kungpao\">Kung Pao Kosher Comedy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltojcc.org\/index.php?src=gendocs&amp;ref=Chopshticks&amp;category=J-Adult\">Chopshticks\u00c2\u00a0<\/a> combine comedy and gourmet Chinese Food in California.<\/p>\n<p>My family is going to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas too: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tung-shing-house.com\/\">Tung Shing House<\/a> in Rego Park, Queens.  But somehow a Chinese family going to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas is not quite the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Christmas, which is the single busiest day for some Chinese restaurants in the whole year (in New York, Miami, parts of LA and San Francisco) &#8212; driven by the Jews. At Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side Shun Lee, for example, it is twice as busy as the next busiest day. Arguably, it&#8217;s as an [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}