DINNES --- ( at Kumiko's ) Japanese new year dinner: sake, rice cake soup with greens, burdock and lotus root , braised root vegetables, shrimp, fish cake, braised pork, 12-h simmered sweet Hokkaido black beans || ( take-out ) pizza : tomato and artichoke || home cooking: Chinese hotpot with sliced lamb, fish balls, leafy vegetables, varieties of tofu, and mushrooms | broiled lamb chop | lentils with celery and roasted red pepper |sauteed bitter melon with tomato | stir-fried threaded daikon with green onion | stir-fried rice with kale and bacon | baked Japanese sweet potato fries | chive flowers and smoked tofu | sauteed Chinese long beans | steamed shao-mai | home baked walnut bread
Kumiko's new year set
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"Brutalist" at AFI
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