WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | apple | coconut cream bread | scallion pancake
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea | clementine
DINNER --- ( a vegetarian Chinese New Year dinner for friends ) plum wine | fried dough twist with sea-moss seasoning | wild mountain walnuts | baked Japanese sweet potato fries || warm Sake | bitter melon and sweet lily bulbs ( with sauce of marinated mushroom and yuzu juice )| lotus root sandwich tempura | Xiao-long-bao ( Shanghai soup dumplings ) | Shanghai fried spring rolls ( with filling of napa cabbage, smoked tofu, shiitake, winter bamboo shoots, green onion ) | chilled Sake | Si-Chuan style vegetable hot pot ( ma-la tang 麻辣烫) with Chinese steamed rolls | Shanghai rice melange ( with bamboo shoots, green peas, and king mushroom ) || Shanghai sweet rice dumpling with fermented rice broth
bitter melon and sweet lily bulb
ma-la hot pot 
Chinese steamed roll- the dinner started with a delicate bitter taste of bitter melon, went through a wild ride of spicy, hot, savory tastes, ended with soothing sweetness of sweet rice dumplings. wish the Rabbit year progress like this as well