WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- ( at A&J) dim sum | fried twist bread | congee | Shanghai style wonton soup
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- Thai hot & sour seafood soup (Tom Yum Talay ) | simmered napa cabbage and radicchio with dashi | crispy scalloped potato | seared frozen steak with mushroom sauce | Italian bread | wine || Chinese sweet rice dumplings
dim sum 
delicious wonton soup 
simmered cabbage
Tom Yum Talay
searing with a torch 
seared frozen steak
- there are no boundaries for good food, dim sum, tom yum, and modernist seared frozen steak.
- an alternative searing method: used the torch to sear the frozen steak instead of cast-iron pan on stove. the local temperature of the torch flame is much higher than that in a pan. the oven cooking time is about a hour and 15 minutes at 180 F. it could have been shorter for a bit more rare and tender result.