{"id":35925,"date":"2017-01-10T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=35925"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:17:29","slug":"manhattan-culinary-staple-china-fun-shutters-blaming-government-over-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/manhattan-culinary-staple-china-fun-shutters-blaming-government-over-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan culinary staple China Fun shutters, blaming government over-regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35926\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35926\" class=\"wp-image-35926 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/China-Fun-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/China-Fun-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/China-Fun-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/China-Fun.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China Fun at New York declared and ended a sudden closing on January 3, this year. (Courtesy: New York Daily News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>(Larry McShane, New York Daily News)<\/strong><\/em> &#8211;\u00a0For 25 years, China Fun was renowned for its peerless soup dumplings and piquant General Tso\u2019s chicken.<\/p>\n<p>What left a bad taste in the mouths of its owners and loyal patrons was the restaurant\u2019s sudden Jan. 3 closing, blamed by management on suffocating government demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate for small businesses like ours in New York have become such that it\u2019s difficult to justify taking risks and running \u2014 nevermind starting \u2014 a legitimate mom-and-pop business,\u201d read a letter posted by the owners in the restaurant\u2019s front door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state and municipal governments, with their punishing rules and regulations, seems to believe that we should be their cash machine to pay for all that ails us in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Second Ave. restaurant became a beloved local mainstay, with customers bemoaning its unexpected disappearance. The Daily News hailed the soup dumplings as the best on the Upper East Side in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/nyc-culinary-staple-china-fun-shutters-blaming-over-regulation-article-1.2939156\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: red;\">Click here to continue reading<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Larry McShane, New York Daily News) &#8211;\u00a0For 25 years, China Fun was renowned for its peerless soup dumplings and piquant General Tso\u2019s chicken. What left a bad taste in the mouths of its owners and loyal patrons was the restaurant\u2019s sudden Jan. 3 closing, blamed by management on suffocating government demands. \u201cThe climate for small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35927,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35925\/revisions\/35927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}