DINNERS --- matsutake mushrooms 4 ways: oven grilled with soy, pan-fried with brown butter, steamed with rice, clear soup with silk gourd | Chinese taco with twice-cooked pork, caramelized onion and green onion | shrimp and mustard green wonton | Chinese garlic scape with sliced pork |steamed egg custard with seaweed seasoning | parboiled tong-hao greens | sweet and sour lotus root | home baked 24-hour no-knead bread
(at Zaytinya DC ) puffy bread and dips and spread | Greek cured fish roe | spinach roll with phyllo pastry | biased lamb shank | smoked mushroom | herb cocktail
fresh matsutake from local Japanese shop