FOOD --- home baked orange bread | congee with thousand-year-old egg | pan-fried chive pockets | homemade gnocchi with tomato sauce | par-boiled tong-hao greens | farmers heirloom tomato salad | steamed blue crabs with fresh ginger rice vinegar dipping sauce | sauteed manila clams and Chinese silk gourd | soy-braised beef noodles with snap peas | sauteed cauliflower with tomato sauce | steamed shao-mai | butternut squash soup with smith apple | pizza after concert: artichoke and margarita | beer
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a ballet
- NIH concert (a ballet again): Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé
