# Who's having Chinese food Sunday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558 "2016-12-24T20:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/21 "2016-12-25T17:01:36Z")
I had sausage, potatoes, grilled vege, and a pint of beer in Wenceslaus Square, Prague. The pint was only $2.50 CAN. 🙂 [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/265/31028016104_50939dcb83_b.jpg "Christmas Dinner in Prague") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/79295541@N08/31028016104/) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/22 "2016-12-25T17:02:53Z")
We had it last night but there are leftovers to go with our mac and cheese and Italian spinach. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/23 "2016-12-25T17:15:32Z")
We had a last-minute change in plans, as my mother fell ill, and she was planning to host Christmas dinner. Instead, my Jewish sister and her kids are happily indoctrinating us in what they call Jewish Christmas and we’ll go out for Chinese food. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/24 "2016-12-25T17:20:37Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Had a slice of pizza and a non-alcoholic beer for breakfast. Does that sort of count? So, your dad was a frat boy and your mother was a baptist? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/25 "2016-12-25T20:02:11Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I had sausage, potatoes, grilled vege, and a pint of beer in Wenceslaus Square, Prague. The pint was only $2.50 CAN. 🙂 > > [Christmas Dinner in Prague | Northern Piper | Flickr](https://flic.kr/p/PgQGbU) If you get a chance, stop at Strahov Monastic Brewery and St. Norbet Restaurant- monastery complex in between castle and Petrin Hill. It’s not the most well known of places as even out taxi driver had trouble finding it, but it’s a bar/restaurant in a cave. Very cool, old place for a drink. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/26 "2016-12-25T21:05:49Z")
There are several Chinese places in town here but only two are nearby. One is open, one is not. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/27 "2016-12-25T22:49:07Z")
I’m having Chinese leftovers. I’m alone this Christmas. My wife and son are with her family in Chicago. We decided I would stay home this year for work/financial reasons. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/28 "2016-12-25T22:59:41Z")
Just got our delivery… Kung Pao chicken for the win. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/29 "2016-12-26T05:27:03Z")
I must be missing something here, not being American, but what is it with the (I presume)in-jokes about Jews and Chinese food? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/30 "2016-12-26T08:23:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I must be missing something here, not being American, but what is it with the (I presume)in-jokes about Jews and Chinese food? Neither celebrate Christmas, so no big family gatherings. It’s the one type of restaurant that is typically open on Christmas, & therefore, the only place for Jews to go out to eat (after an afternoon at the movies, which has been, traditionally, the only entertainment open on Dec 25th). ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/31 "2016-12-26T19:14:14Z")
More than 30 years ago, we were living in Chicago when I was then teaching at the University of Chicago. It was just the three of us including our 4 year old son who was in his first year in a two-year kindergarten. We had no freezer and a little refrigerator; we did not want an endless supply of turkey, so we ordered take-out Chinese from the restaurant on the corner. The Monday after Thanksgiving the teacher asked what everyone had had for Thanksgiving dinner. Apparently they all replied turkey except for our son. He came home quite upset and asked us, “When are we going to be like normal people?” He’s learned over the years, that the answer to that question is probably “never”. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/32 "2016-12-27T01:46:08Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I must be missing something here, not being American, but what is it with the (I presume)in-jokes about Jews and Chinese food? [Chinese cuisine in Jewish culture in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine_in_Jewish_culture_in_the_United_States) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/33 "2016-12-27T01:49:33Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I must be missing something here, not being American, but what is it with the (I presume)in-jokes about Jews and Chinese food? Growing up in a kosher house with immigrant parents, this was not part of my childhood. I didn’t hear about it or start doing it until my kids started asking about it and now it’s a nice little tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/34 "2016-12-27T02:15:14Z")
I did have some Chinese food yesterday but I had to order it in on Saturday night. My favourite Chinese place is always closed on Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/35 "2016-12-27T03:19:59Z")
I had some homemade Chinese jiaozi just a couple of hours ago, but today is the 26th and it’s probably no longer relevant… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/36 "2016-12-29T21:59:09Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Had a slice of pizza and a non-alcoholic beer for breakfast. Does that sort of count? Not unless the no alc beer was chinese ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558/37 "2016-12-31T20:34:08Z")
I was at the mall on Christmas, right next to the Chinese food place in the food court, but I didn’t even hesitate - I had a shawarma instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-having-chinese-food-sunday/775558.md?page=1)