{"id":356224,"date":"2021-11-22T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356224"},"modified":"2021-11-22T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:05:16","slug":"another-year-of-free-thanksgiving-meals-at-majesty-chinese-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/another-year-of-free-thanksgiving-meals-at-majesty-chinese-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year of free Thanksgiving meals at Majesty Chinese Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majesty Chinese Restaurant will be distributing free pre-packaged meals this Thursday, Nov. 25, from 4pm to 5pm or while supplies last. The Thanksgiving meals will be distributed at the restaurant itself in Garapan. Anyone wishing to refer a struggling person or low-income family in need of a Thanksgiving meal can email Majesty at majesty.catering@tdsaipan.com.<\/p>\n<p>Majesty said Tuesday last week that it started giving out free Thanksgiving meals last year as the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the community and how everyone celebrated the holiday, and that it is happy to give out meals again this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, churches and other organizations in the CNMI provide thousands of meals to residents. This year is no exception, [as] the pandemic has changed the way [that] Thanksgiving gatherings are held. Majesty Restaurant &amp; Catering, a local establishment that has been distributing and delivering free meals on Sundays, is distributing Thanksgiving meals again this year,\u201d said the restaurant in an email message.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_356226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356226\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/majthank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-356226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/majthank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of Majesty Chinese Restaurant\u2019s free pre-packaged meals that it gave out on Thanksgiving last year. This year, Majesty will again be distributing free pre-packaged meals at its Garapan location on Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, from 4pm to 5pm or while supplies last. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Majesty said it will be strictly enforcing social distancing and mask wearing, and said that it is possible that the meal pickup will be a drive-through-style event come Thursday. Majesty added that all the meals will be prepared in-house by the restaurant\u2019s culinary team.<\/p>\n<p>In Majesty\u2019s first run of serving free Thanksgiving meals, it gave out almost 200 meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majesty Chinese Restaurant will be distributing free pre-packaged meals this Thursday, Nov. 25, from 4pm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":356228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}