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They can usually be seen pedaling madly on Manhattan streets, often against traffic, rushing to satisfy New Yorkers? capacious appetites for cold sesame noodles and General Tso?s chicken. But nowadays these restaurant deliverymen can increasingly be seen standing defiantly on the city?s sidewalks, hoisting protest signs and shouting that they should be paid the minimum wage. Call it the deliverymen?s rebellion. These workers, almost all of them immigrants from China, have picketed several restaurants, accusing some well-known Asian eateries of paying them as little as $1.40 an hour, far less than the federal and state minimum wage.