Christmas in Chinatown
I posted something on the CR Shopping Blog today about where to shop for gifts on Christmas Day (hey, some of us really can’t get it together until the last possible minute!). One of the options I included was Chinatown, and I decided to do some realtime fact-checking this morning, with a trip to New York’s Chinatown for dim sum. And I definitely have to concur with CR’s fine writer (heh, heh). Chinatown is a great place to spend some time on Christmas. Most of the restaurants and shops are open, and the streets are much less congested than usual—though the dim sum place was packed by 11:00 am; I was glad we got there by 10. It’s not quite the same as Christmas in Hong Kong; I used to love the elaborate Christmas lights that all of the office buildings would put up every year. But it’s a lot closer, and I don’t have to worry that my pidgin Cantonese is going to result in a plate of chicken feet when I really want har gow!
