This Is Lower Merion And Narberth
Serving the Main Line Community
Update December 24, 2023. We’re back!
Update December 24, 2022. Are we back?
Update December 23, 2021 – We need to keep hoping and praying.
This story first appeared on December 20, 2019. Enjoy, and let’s hope and/or pray that next Christmas we’ll be crammed again, inside the restaurant. – December 24, 2020
Sang Kee Set For Crowds As Jews Observe Christmas Eve “Ritual”
As Frank Han, General Manager of Sang Kee Bistro will tell you, Jews going out to a movie on Christmas Eve, and then eating Chinese Food is definitely “a thing.”
Jean Shepherd (not Jewish) in his now iconic reminiscence of his Christmas past, called attention to a phenomenon that most American Jews were already very much aware of – that the only place where you could go out to eat on Christmas Eve was a Chinese Rhestaurant.
Ardmore native, Friends Central graduate, and Oscar, two-time Golden Globe, two-time Grammy, two-time Tony Award winner (only nominated for an Emmy); Benj Pasek; wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical adaptation of “A Christmas Story.” He told the Inquirer that his family “celebrated” Christmas Eve every year at Chun Hing (Balwynne Park