Wow, zhangstah: if that's what you get to have for dinner, please, please keep posting. Welcome Suzanne F . .thanks for the welcome! last night's din: - very tender pork meatballs simmered in clear broth with cucumber and clear cellophane noodles - red cooked beef - stir-fried beansprouts with more of those meaty reconstituted mushrooms - shanghainese cabbage sauteed in oyster sauce - salad of blanched potatoe matchsticks in a scallion, vinegar, and sugar vinaigrette - homemade scallion pancakes - white rice this morning's brunch: - qiucai dumplings with various dipping sauces and alas, now that i am back at school after TG break . .tonight's dinner: - cereal, skim milk, fuji apple, and some fat free yogurt for dinner