WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | homemade focaccia bread | kumquats
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- ( a Lunar New Year Dinner for family and friends ) sparkling wine | adamame | dried-moss-seasoned fried bread dough twist | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | lotus root sandwich tempura | grilled rice cake with dashi broth and grated daikon | Shanghai salsa ( smoked bean curd, cilantro, and roasted peanuts with chili sauce ) | Shanghai fried spring roll ( with fillings of threaded napa cabbage, shiitake, snow pea and smoked bean curd ) | wonton soup ( shrimp, mustard green, kumquat zest, needle mushroom, radish sprouts ) | sauteed butterfly-cut shrimp and snow peas, king mushroom confit, soba noodles with white miso and shiso dressing | Teriyaki eel and rice with pickled vegetables | white wine and red wine || sweet rice dumplings ( in fermented rice broth with Goji berry and kumquat zest )
grilled rice cake with dashi
Shanghai spring roll, Shanghai salsa
wonton soup
soba, king mushroom, shrimp and snow peas
eel rice bowl- power is back. had great time cooking and shared our lunar new year dinner with friends.