New York landmark Jing Fong dining room closes as Manhattan’s Chinatown feels bite of pandemic 

I was born there in 1940, watching from California now -- people weren't confused about gender then

Go watch frank from munchies do shift here its awesome

Ditto. Watching from Sydney, Australia.

Same, I feel sad to. Grew up in a small town in British Columbia. Mom ran a Szechuan restaurant for 10 years. Then we moved to the big city, mom locked the doors one last time and we said goodbye, everyone in the town still miss the food.

I'm not from USA...im feeling sorry for them.. 😭😭😭 maybe they struggled a lot...they didnt have any option ...maybe tuff for them.

St. Peter sins? More like Tiannamen Square Sins

@@W11-o2y shut yo mouf

@@fluffyseal8782 Lol, he had a picture of Tiannamen Square(Yes I can spell)

How was the food?

They have another location in New York on the upper east side that is currently open

aaa!!! 😂

I agree, many property owners are taking the covid situation to their advantage and hoping to gain more out of it...its truly depressing to watch

the same thing happened to a close family friend. right off the manhattan bridge, there was a restaurant he owned, and the dudes who funded it were just car dealership owners looking for some food to eat. several years ago they stopped funding it and now theres a large luxury hotel there, which really ruins the type of vibe in chinatown to be quite frank. was always nice and gave me money as a kid, he made the best lobster too :(

@@geepadoodle What do you mean by "the dudes who funded it?" As in the owner of the restaurant? The customers? I am just confused because "funded it" implies it wasn't profitable and needed fundings to stay in business.

Hardly corporate greed; as the interviewed man JUST STATED, it's the fact that real-estate tax went up in spite of the pandemic's occurrence. This shutdown should be blamed on poor city and state management of lockdown procedures, unrealistic increases in expenses for existing businesses, and a tone-deaf legislature that doesn't know how its own constituency functions.

Gentrification

I mean the ppl that own that place are millionaires.

You mean the financial wankers that the city was built upon. They dont even get handouts. Cause they dont create jobs.

@@visorij3374 obviously not millionaire enough.

Yup, that's exactly what the last two stimulus packages under Trump were for. Almost 50% of the entire benefits of the stimulus bill was for bailing out big corporation and firms, but all the middle and working class were ignored and left behind. This new Democrat stimulus bill, 900 billion of the 1.9 trillion goes directly to any families that make less than $90k a year, so that's something, but it's too late.

@@evan8654 they're definitely millionaires. My sister had her wedding there and it costed $250,000 for just an evening and 1000 guests. The place is filled every single day and there is always a waiting list just to get it. Food cost roughly $3-5 per dish and cost the restaurant no more than $1 to make 1 dish. The Chinese association rent this place out once or twice a month for their events and with how much a wedding cost, you can imagine how much those event cost too. The owner just been living a luxurious lifestyle and never planned for the future and spent most of his money.

Or the government to make it a public space.

It's even worse when you realise that so many people have lost their jobs. I hope they get the support they need.

@ben chan lol

@ben chan shut up

ben chan What did you do to help during the attacks against Asian Americans? You’re just using the attacks against Asian Americans as an excuse to be mean towards other people smh. You are not helping anyone. You don’t get to treat anyone badly just because other people hurt you. They are just merely expressing their sadness, yet you decide to rub more salt into their wound.

who gives a 💩 that your alive? 🖕🖕

@@skywastaken7300 don’t bother confronting this guy. He’s clearly a brain dead troll

I felt the same way too

He looks a lot like a radar technician on starkiller base!

spot on. lol

Yeah but with a more symmetrical face.

In the future everyone visits occasionally because they work remotely in a cleaner city

😲😲

Will life get better when most people are vaccinated?

I wish it would come true

or gonna be like huge prison based on "Escape From New York"

but it won't keep up

@Jorge K that's not true lol, I live there, there's a ton of stuff to do, that is why it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.

Lol, the meme is real.

Nope they are rich as if we don't know how things works.

@@trebledc they are discriminated against, boycotted, and harder to survive due to the virus. Please educate yourself before making such comments

@@trebledc racist liberal

The issue is the lack of customers during a pandemic. The best thing to do is wait til it's over and then crowd fund it to open if you want. Otherwise it would be like continuing to operate a cruise ship whether or not any customers are on board.

@@trebledc Keep your evil thoughts in your head.

That would give the same feeling of a small town with its chill out bar. The whole place would lose its meaning once the place is gone.

Cultural and community centers like this mean the world to.any group of people. It's horrible to see this place go and I wish the owner the best to continue as best he can.

I'm getting Toontown vibes

Totally agreed. America needs to subsidize its small businesses, and education and healthcare. All the means to help anyone have a chance in creating smaller scale alternatives to the corporate oligarchy that owns most of the economy. A company is too big if it can afford to lose a store, or not listen to its customers.

Same for me too. Also this year’s recession has been great too

Yup. It was so nice. I made lot of profit on the stock market. Best year for investment for sure! Agreed

@@terrie001 now you know the formula for this kind of profit. Maybe create a man-made pandemic next, eh?

Orang indonesia ya kak?

There have been very few anti Asian attacks actually. The question oughta be why aren't the one million Chinese living in New York City supporting Chinatown themselves? With numbers like that you don't even need outsiders to support Chinatown.

Then Staten island gets pricey off elsewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@ethyna214 still cheaper than brooklyn

@@ethyna214 i mean it's already just new jersey, etc.

After staten island pa philly is next stop

After philly it’s west virginia

Usually it's the place that give customer

Your restaurant will not be there. As there are already Sino American tension that cause Americans to boycott this place.

@MrZapparin This is because the CCP have disgraced the Chinese people with covid, human rights violation in Xing Jiang province, trying to conquer the Senkaku island with salami slicing techinic, and stealing the Stealth technology from the airforce of the country where this restaurant is in. It is the Sino American tension that cause the Restaurant to close as many wealthy Americans are convinced to boycott the Chinese.

@@christopherseow969 sources?

@@TomWelson Donald Trump, Wion, New York Times and Gateway Pundit.

@@christopherseow969 Care for a bet?

How? They havnt received rent for the past 12 months and the rent hasn’t gone up since 1993...

@CJ2 children and young people also died

@CJ2 you're almost correct but sadly delusional.

@CJ2I guess the world has worked together to create this then , even china and us are working together to create this artificial crisis that is nothing but a flu. And I am not sure how you think all big corporations are making big money out of it when trump was pushing so hard to stop the economy from shuting down because he knew the whole economy will suffer. From a scientific perspective , no one knows what are the long term damages to the body from this viruses even if you have recovered. You won't see this until couple years and I would be surprised fertility will spike couple years from now. From economic perspective, GDP does not grow when more than half of the people are not working but consuming. No government would want that to happen and all the money that big corporations earned are essentially papers printed by the government. The consequences will come very soon from these printed money (inflation). You can obviously see that when 1/3 of the stocks in the market are zombie companies

Seriously Manhattan Chinatown is hotels, regional bus stops and pharmacies.

@J H I’m sure the rent is a lot but before Covid, you’d have to reserve in advance to get into it or be there super early in the morning for dim sum and whenever they do dinners, it’s usually for a celebration party that filled up the whole room. I haven’t had dim sum brunch in there for years because of that but it shows the quality is still top notch.

Sleeping 😴

these same people voted dem

The Bee doesn't require dine-in to do business

U married 5 times? Dude welldone!!!

Nice... Five wives..

@@yogawan3805 i had 5 weddings... 2 in nyc (western and chinese), 1 in dc, 1 in hk, 1 in mainland PRC... all in 3 months...

@@hwoarang2001 I not sure what u mean, 5 wives? Or just 1 but the ceremonies 5 times. Lol

@@yogawan3805 one wife; 5 ceremonies for various family members and friends