When the Bumpass's dogs ruin the turkey dinner they go out.
Have you ever been out for Chinese food on Christmas Day or the day after?

http://mandarinutah.com/

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Mandarin is closed on christmas day.

We did once when our oven unexpectedly died.

We put everything in the fridge to cook a different day and went out to a Chinese restaurant. It never tasted so good. I was more relaxed because I wasn't running around trying to cook, stage and serve everything.

The restaurant wasn't crowded for a change.

It was a Christmas dinner associated with good memories for me.

It was the movie that gave us the idea to head out. Love that movie.

While we were there, they got calls and requests for reservations for Christmas and New Years. I would not be surprised if the movie didn't encourage that. The owner said they do a good business on holidays with diners who don't want to cook.

please use Asian instead of Chinese!

also, there's NO SUCH PLACE as 'the orient', OK?


/s/ Mr. Grammar!

in my topic line the latest political correctness way to spell it? lol


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Ba-Zing!

China is a country. Chinese food is different from Thai food. Chinese food is different from Japanese food. It is also different from Korean food. And Vietnamese. Out of all of these, I prefer Chinese food. That's not racist.

Get off your high horse richey

I eat Chinese food with great prejudice for it. I also like Chinese acrobats and opera. Chinese hot mustard on egg rolls. Fine China.

Are you saying that there is (or should be) no difference between Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Cambodian? Do you know of any "Oriental" restaurant that has all of those?

"please use Asian instead of Chinese!"

You are joking right. Literally there are a dozen Chinese in my house at the moment celebrating Christmas and they would be baffled my your comments. Chinese refer to Chinese food as Chinese food "zhongguo fan"..

I don't claim to be the most up to date or politically correct person around but what is wrong with Chinese? I was not an English major either. There are many different countries/ethnic groups in Asia? In the movie they go out for Chinese food. Not Thai, not Japanese, not Vietnamese, or Korean. All of which are distinctly different.

In Japan they have a semi tradition of having KFC on Christmas Day. Don't ask me why.

Hello Grammar Police

You have to watch the Saturday Night Live skit on "Asian American Doll." I was literally laughing out loud at the doll "created by fear."

My children keep me up to date on the pc. They correct me if I say "oriental rug." It's supposed to be "Asian rug". LOL


Kathleen

Oriental is fine when used to describe OBJECTS (not people.) It's proper to describe something as an Oriental vase, rug, pattern if you don't know where it was made.

I hope GNPE is being sarcastic, because that has to be one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time. Chinese food is different from Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean etc just like other posters mentioned. Hell, I'll take it a step further and describe it as American Chinese, because that's more accurate for what we Americans eat here.

A family I know here in Georgia cannot cook. No one in the family of three knows how. So for Thanksgiving they normally get some invite, and for Christmas they go out for Chinese near a local Publix supermarket. So I'm assuming that some Chinese places do, in fact, stay open.

Yeah, umm...the Chinese restaurant I went to this time last year says Chinese restaurant on the awning and on the door. I'm going to call it a Chinese restaurant.
That's like insisting someone named Mike go by the name Michael if they don't want to...just call a business by the requested name.

Exactly.

The restaurant I went to says Chinese Restaurant, Oriental food right on the sign.

Don't you know that the Jewish Christmas tradition in the NYC area is to go out for Chinese? Often a visit to a movie theater is included as well. My husband is Jewish, and we have gone out for to the local Chinese restuarant for dinner on Christmas several times. We are doing it again this year, since I will be making the big meal this weekend when one of my sons and his girlfriend are here. And yes, it IS Chinese. We also have several Asian buffets in the area, but the local one is strictly Chinese food and the chef is from China. Last night I went to Midnight Mass as I sing in the choir, and today we have a Chinese dinner.

There is going to be news story in Minneapolis about this tonight. It is what all my Jewish friends did when I was a kid.

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> Don't you know that the Jewish Christmas tradition in the NYC area is to go out for Chinese? Often a visit to a movie theater is included as well. My husband is Jewish, and we have gone out for to the local Chinese restuarant for dinner on Christmas several times. We are doing it again this year, since I will be making the big meal this weekend when one of my sons and his girlfriend are here. And yes, it IS Chinese. We also have several Asian buffets in the area, but the local one is strictly Chinese food and the chef is from China. Last night I went to Midnight Mass as I sing in the choir, and today we have a Chinese dinner.

In Los Angeles for a few years (I didn't hear about it until after the fact), they had what was called "An Evening of Kung Pao Comedy" where you'd have a 7-course meal followed by a show with several name comedians.

The Jewish tradition, which I only follow half of, is for a movie and takeaway Chinese. If it's OK with admin, here's a link to the why and wherefore:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/why-american-jews-eat-chinese-food-on-christmas/384011/

It was packed.

We were also wondering if people got the idea of going out to Chinese food on Christmas from the movie.

We'll have to try it sometime.

Yep. Spent Xmas in Santa Fe one year and forgot to make reservations. It was the only place we could get into.

We went to our favorite Chinese restaurant after Vesperal Divine Liturgy last night. Yes, the movie did inspire me. I figured it would be one of the only places open that late on a Christmas Eve and it was. The kids were happy because they got to see the koi fish. The owner loves our kids and lets them feed the fish.

We then came home and opened all the gifts. We don't do Santa so we figured, why not! As a result, my husband and I were able to sleep in this morning as the kids already had all their new toys to play with.

We cut off contact with my toxic TBM family and hubby and I are able to drink wine all day long today.

I really like what we did and I think this will become our new tradition.

Check Yahoo news today.

It has an article about why it has become tradition for many Jews to eat at Chinese restaurants on Christmas.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-american-jews-eat-chinese-food-christmas-170002066.html;_ylt=AwrSyCPTgJxUbSYAYvPQtDMD

It's pretty much a Jewish tradition. People who don't celebrate Christmas go to the restaurants of people who don't celebrate Christmas. And then to a movie.

We had Chinese!
We celebrated Christmas with family this past weekend, so for today we decided to take a little road trip to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Guess what Christmas lunch options we had? McD's or "The Chinese Buffet". We chose the latter and it was very nice - I even had some Peking Duck.

Our family spends every Christmas Eve dinner eating Chinese take-out in front of the TV, watching A Christmas Story. Much more fun and relaxing than cooking.

Eating Thai right now with the family! Our 2 Chinese restaurants were closed.

We went out to PF Chang yesterday ( Xmas Eve )
Love their Dynamite Shrimp !

My daughter and family were invited to eat Christmas dinner with another family they were friends with. At the very last minute, one of the children of the host family got sick. Daughter and family ended up eating Chinese food on Christmas day since they had no back up plan. They thought it was great fun!

but I went out last night as well, as the local Mexican places nearby were closed as well. And then, not only did I get half a roast duck, but I got some absolutely delicious dumplings as well. Atlanta Magazine did a review of a food court at a strip mall in its April 2014 issue, and I've been trying some of the dishes in it. YUM!!

I went to a Chinese restaurant on Christmas day 2011. Wouldn't say it was crowded but I wasn't the only one there. This was in Washington DC. Didn't want to see family that year and had just gotten out of a relationship so I had nothing else to do that day. Food was good. They ended up charging my card $1200, but that's another story.

A couple years ago our family decided to not cook on Christmas day and hit our favorite Chinese restaurant for take out the night before.

When I arrived to pick up our order, I asked the proprietor if they were open tomorrow. We still laugh about his response:

"Of course not! It's Christmas!"

Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra....
Of course - Chinese tastes fabulous on Christmas.

We always have Chinese food for Christmas Eve. Sometimes I make it at home, and sometimes we get take-out. Or sometimes we do both. This year we got take-out and I also made sweet and sour chicken and some stir fry at home (because that's what the kids requested). And we always have to have fortune cookies. I buy extras before Christmas just to make sure we have plenty.

I don't remember exactly why we started the Chinese food Christmas Eve tradition, but it was almost twenty years ago when the oldest kids were just little. There may have been a connection with A Christmas Story, since we started our tradition of watching that on Christmas Eve around that same time period.

We just went to Panda Express for lunch, then brought it home and watched A Christmas Story while chowing on Chow Mein. Mmmmmmm...
Fa ra ra ra ra, all!!!

In Seattle, it's Tai Tung, hands down

http://www.yelp.com/biz/tai-tung-chinese-restaurant-seattle


I prefer the chow yuk.