| Sweetened crunchy turnip strips.
| A crisp green vegetable (gailan) in a sauce made from tempura sauce and
sesame oil.
| The menu entry for the gailan: bai2 zhuo2 (together roughly translates
as boiled) gai4 lan2 (together means Chinese kale).
| Eel. Not bad. Slinky, slightly sweet.
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| The menu entry for our eel: noisy-sounding (xiang3) oil (you2) eel
(shan2) something. (I can't read the fourth character, but I know it
sounds like hu with some tone.)
| Glutinous rice cake with pine nuts.
| The menu entry for the glutinous rice cakes with pine nuts: literally su
(as in Suzhou)-style pull cake (su1 shi4 la gao1).
| Claypot. Traditionally a New Year's dish, it includes ham, shrimp, egg
dumplings (little pockets made of egg with pork inside), fried fish,
duck, vermicelli noodles, and lettuce. Properly seasoned.
Incidentally, I think the egg dumplings were delicious, and I plan to
try to make them.
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