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My brother-in-law who lives in Westport, CT was celebrating his 70-th
birthday. So my wife and I went down there to be with him. Since
Westport is very near New York City, we went to NYC afterwards for a
visit to see the holiday scene and to have our favorite Chinese food.
1. The Shanghai Joe restaurant (鹿鸣春)in NYC. Some
of the traveling ScienceNet readers or blogger, such as Prof.
Wang HongFei, may know this famous NYC restaurant). This
restaurant has three branches in NYC and is famous for their
“crab meat soup buns” (蟹肉湯包 But readers who have been to the
城皇廟 in Shanghai and had the same will know
what I mean). People all over the East Coast come here for this
dish. When we got there on 12/29 noon there was already a long
waiting line extending to outside the restaurant. The groups
waiting immediately ahead of us and behind us are Caucasians
(老外) from Framingham, Massachusetts and Atlanta, Georgia
respectively (Note this like people from Shenyang and Fuchou
respectively coming to Beijing for a dinner. This gives you some
idea of the fame of this restaurant and the sophistication of some
Americans for Chinese food). Anyhow after appropriate waiting
we were seated. All we had are two big orders of steamed crab
meat soup buns and Shanghai braised fish tails. Addiction to
Chinese food is a bit like addiction to drugs, every few days we
must have our “fix” and preferably a high quality “fix”. And this
is high quality “fix” all right.
2. The Lincoln Center for performing arts. – This and the Kennedy
center in Washington DC are America’s equivalent of Beijing’s
new egg-shaped National performing theater. Of course the
Lincoln center is over half a century old and is a bit dated. But all
the world famous artists still perform here regularly. And during
holiday season at night, it is still worth visiting. My wife being an
opera lover visits here each time we are in New Yo0rk City.
Speaking about opera, it used to be back in the 18th and 19th
century ordinary people’s entertainment medium. But with the
advent of radio, TV, and Internet, it can no longer compete as
popular entertainment and now must be heavily subsidized by
donation and supported by true music lovers and a small portion
of the population. Also costumes and stage design for opera have
become very elaborate productions as added attractions. I wonder
if the same thing is happening to Chinese opera. With it
minimalist and rather abstract stage setting, how can it compete
with modern multi-media entertainment? Is it a disappearing art
form?
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