Chinese food on New Year's

So... do all of you guys know about this New Year's Eve tradition where you eat American Chinese food? Like the old school American Chinese stuff from like the 60's before the east coast had even seen like a ba k Choy or knew what the hell dim sum was.

Like Crab Rangoon and beef teriyaki that kind if stuff.

Is that just a white thing? Like to black people eat that kind of food on New Year's Eve.. and yeah it started off because nothg else is open. But you have adults who grew up on that stuff. Not only that, their parents grew up doing it, hell their grandparentsbgrew up doing this, so it's become like a tradition more sacred than Santa Claus because it spans all religions.

You could have some vegan health nut who MUST punish themselves by finding the greasiest fast food Chinese place around. Lie some hipster living in Chinatown, will have to search outside if Chiatown to get the crack of Chinese food cocaine.

Can we do just any chinese food nowadays though? Or is there another ethnic group that might want to try their hand at the New Year's Eve tradition?

You know when I first found out about this tradition? I was in highschool, and it was actually my first and only time working at a Chinese restaurant owned by a friends, well my Si Hing's girlfriends family in the whitesr part of Massachusetts you can imagine.

It was there that I was first introduced to Crab Rangoon.

First of all what the hell is Crab Rangoon...ehh  that sounds like a post for the Chinatown Blog