![]() ![]() I mean the whole idea does stretch back to a time when immigrants in this country who didn’t celebrate Christmas, but had time off for it, found that Chinese restaurants where open on that day and were more than happy to host folks who didn’t necessarily have anywhere else to go and eat. We were both born in the South so Chinese food on Christmas Day is outside our own cultural upbringing and thus felt like something we really ought to try. I mean, I can do that any day of the week.Īs it was, I do have a single friend from long past college days who lives here so I texted up Mr P who seemed quite amenable to getting out of his place and trying something he hadn’t done either. Considering all my couple friends here had plans, it seemed like a good alternative to laying around my apartment in my sweats bingeing crap on television. Still, as far as the scene at the end where they are dining at the Chinese restaurant, I felt it was something I could get on board with. I know it has some how become a Christmas classic and has a certain mid-West appeal but I just never found it funny or entertaining or reminiscent of my childhood and what not. It was something that even made an appearance in the movie “A Christmas Story.” A movie, by the way, I just don’t get. Make sense? In SF I’d always heard of folks who found their way to Chinatown on Christmas to dine on dim sum and Chinese food. In this case it “the new” was really more of something that other have been doing for a while but which for me would be a new thing. With fish on Christmas Eve, it seems Christmas Day also called out for something to do. New city, new traditions, it is a thing I’m trying.
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