The fun has stopped at a longtime Chinese restaurant in Manhattan that has fed its share of celebrities over the past 25 years.

China Fun on Second Avenue on New York's Upper East Side, once frequented by Jerry Seinfeld, Martin Scorsese and Rudy Giuliani, among other notables, posted a notice on its front door blaming city and state regulations for its Jan 3 shuttering.

The all-caps note claimed that "the state and municipal governments, with their punishing rules and regulations, seem to believe that we should be their cash machine to pay for all that ails us in society, even though we suffer just like everyone else from an economy in flux".