HOLIDAY DINNER with friends at home CHINESE --- rose sparkling wine | cocktail shrimp | home baked focaccia with zaatar herb spice topping || white wine | silk gourd and silken tofu soup | stir-fried threaded daikon with scallion | stir-fried garlic scape with smoked bean curd | stir-fried bitter melon with lotus root | Shanghai style cai-fan (rice with bacon bits and winter greens kale) | kao-fu pot with winter bamboo shoot, wood-ear, shittake mushroom, and lily buds | baked whole bronzino with scallion and ginger | Chinese sweet rice dumplings in honey broth
HOLIDAY DINNER with family at Lafay 101 DD's JAPANESE ---- Japanese green tea with hard candy | daikon and tofu pouch with mushroom and olive filling in dashi broth with Japanese mustard and yuzu sauce| monkfish liver with grated daikon and chives | tomato jelly | shabu shabu hot pot: napa cabbage rolls, lightly grilled tofu, beech mushroom, leek, greens, monkfish, yellowtail, clams, finished broth with steamed rice and raw eggs | tea with taiyake
Holiday dinner mostly vegetables
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Japanese dinner at DD's
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Magic Flute at Met
Kathryn Lewek the queen of the Queen of the Night!
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night walk: the Time Square and Fifth Ave
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NewYork Public Library
