Inside NYC Chinatown's adult daycare centers— where taxpayers spend $400M for lunches and ping pong

Nearly 400 Medicaid-funded adult day cares have have popped up in storefronts, apartments, and basements across the five boroughs.

Stefano Giovannini for NY Post

At the Golden Town Adult Social Day Care in Chinatown on a recent Tuesday afternoon, a handful of elderly Chinese immigrants in their winter jackets picked at plates of lo mein and rice.

Lunch is supplied by a local restaurant, where prices for a typical dish range around $7 to $12.

But this is not a soup kitchen or lunch cou…