New Year's Eve tradition
Just wondering...In the Boston area a huge tradition on New Years Eve is to eat Chinese Food. Orders for take out are placed like a week ahead of time or more. Don't even think about trying to get a reservation at any Chinese place if you wait and call on 12/31. No way!! They're all booked up.
Does this happen anywhere else in the country? Or do other areas have similar traditions but for different foods?
AnneM
Dec 31, 2006 11:19PM
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In New Jersey growing up you couldn't find a seat in a Chinese restaurant or a movie theatre on Christmas night.
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That's not just New Jersey. It's a running joke that you'll meet every member of the local Jewish community in a Chinese restaurant or movie theater on Christmas. That's held true for every community up and down the East Coast that I've lived in, whether it had a large or small Jewish population.
This is a venerated, time-honored Jewish tadition. LOL.
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Boston area natives eat Chinese on NYE, not on Christmas. We do this in place of the hoppin john, of the south, or the pork/sauerkraut of the midwest. Not sure why, but Chinese on NYE has been a custom here for as long as I can remember.
WE had our take out order placed on SAturday, and I picked it up early Sunday evening. The lines for take out were out the door!
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