Chinanews.com, December 24th. According to the US "World Journal" report, from the days before Christmas to New Year's Day in previous years, the streets of Chinatown in Manhattan, New York were busy, restaurants lined up, and gift shops were booming. This year, the epidemic hit the streets of Chinatown. Despite the crowds, the restaurant business is still not as good as before, and the gift shop owner lamented: "There are people who watch it, but not many people buy it."
This year’s Christmas is a continuous holiday. The weather cleared on the 23rd and the snow gradually melted. There were also many people eating and shopping on the street. In addition, some residents took advantage of the holiday to go out to buy vegetables to prepare for the holiday dinner.
Mrs. Zhu, the owner of the Chinese restaurant "Shanghai Lao Zhengxing", said that in the past ten days before Christmas to New Year's Day, the restaurant was busy from morning to night, and there were queues outside the restaurant. However, this year encountered the epidemic and most of the people They are all called takeaways. The takeaway business has been good these past two days. One day there were more than 200 orders.
At noon on the 23rd, the restaurant was full of seats for outdoor dining. Mrs. Zhu said that even if the business seems to be okay, the restaurant’s outdoor dining seat has only seven tables and still cannot support the restaurant’s operations. However, she also said, “It’s not necessary to talk about making money now. , It’s good if it can be maintained."
Recently, the Chinatown Business Reform District has promoted on social media, urging people to go to Chinatown to buy Christmas gifts, but Ms. Li, an employee of the Red Apple gift shop, said that the weather is a lot better, and foreigners come to visit Chinatown, but some people Seeing but no one bought it, the business was as deserted.
(Yan Jiaying)