Chinese Dinner - 2004

After several days of stuffing ourselves with turkey and all the fixings, we thought it would be a good idea to serve something that didn't fill us up quite so much. And we settled on Chinese food.

To decorate for this, we put up little paper Chinese lanterns over the table. Then we looked up each guest's "Chinese name" (we used this website which states that the translation is for entertainment purposes only) . We printed out the graphic representation of the names as well as their meaning and even the Chinese zodiac sign.

We have a glass table, so we taped these to the underside of the glass table, facing up so that each of our guests could read their names while they were eating without spilling anything on the paper!

Our meal consisted of:

Lemon Chicken
Red Vegetable Curry
Sweet and Sour Noodles
Marninated Lemongrass Beef
Fortune Cookies

We had a lovely wine - Tobin James' 2003 Muscat "Dream Catcher" . If you are ever in the Paso Robles area, be sure to check out the Tobin James winery!