Nearly 200 visitors from the People’s Republic of China, who were taken to Staten Island by the State Department to see “typical America” on Independence Day, had lunch at a kosher Jewish delicatessen.
Shelly Goldman, who operates Adelman’s Kosher Delicatessen on Staten Island, said today he hosted 180 members of the Performing Arts Company of the People’s Republic of China. The meal for the Chinese visitors was free, although some of the overflow who went to McDonald’s had to pay there.
Goldman said he served the Chinese the traditional chicken soup prepared in the Chinese style. He said the Chinese are not meat eaters but some fired hot dogs which are similar to a dish in China. The usually taciturn Chinese maintained their image, saying only the food was “very interesting,” Goldman said.
Goldman said he hosted the meal because he is a “friend” of ballet, because he saw an opportunity for some publicity and because he considers himself a “citizen of the world.” Adelman’s, which has been on Staten Island for two years, is a branch of another delicatessen by the same name that has been in Brooklyn’s Boro Park section for 40 years.
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