APPETIZERS

Daily soup
Lantern pork and chive dumplings
Fresh black mushroom and cabbage dumplings
Fiery eggplant salad with garlic and chiles
Vietnamese-style summer rolls with NC shrimp, basil, mint, cool rice noodles        
         and roasted peanut-hoisin
Sake and tea-cured salmon bento box with house pickled ginger and red cabbage,
          wasabi, miso-mayonnaise, sticky rice and nori
Thai chicken salad with chiles, lime, roasted peanuts, red onions and
         crispy rice stick noodles
Salt and pepper shrimp - fresh local shrimp with crispy shells, fried jalapenos,
          coriander and sea salt
Chapel Hill Creamery head-to-tail pork terrine
Seasonal greens with ume plum vinaigrette

Bi bim bop -  a hot iron pot filled with marinated local vegetables, sesame-tofu and sticky rice,
          a fried Fickle Creek Farm egg and homemade hot pepper sauce
Seafood hotpot- slippery noodles in lobster broth with NC shrimp, halibut,    
          fresh squid, manila clams and fresh lime leaf
Steamed halibut with seared ginger, scallions, black beans,
          steamed baby bok choy and jasmine rice
Tea and spice smoked local, pasture-raised chicken with yang chow pork and
          shrimp fried rice, local spicy greens and housemade XO sauce
Lemongrass BBQ'd Niman Ranch pork tenderloin with cool rice noodles, lettuce cups,
          Vietnamese herb salad, chile-lime sauce and roasted peanut hoisin
Fried whole North Carolina flounder with garlic, chiles, tamarind, fresh lime leaf,
          carrot salad and jasmine rice
Japanese steakhouse-style rare Niman Ranch filet of beef with crispy spinach,
          ponzu sauce, warm green tea sushi rice and sea salt

Local strawberry ice cream with pistachio shortbread
Hot chocolate cake with candied local pecan ice cream
Vanilla bean panna cotta with espresso caramel
           and coffee bean brittle
Steamed yuzu pudding cake with local blueberries
           and soft cream
Local mint-lime sorbet with an almond fortune


updated 7/8/08 - menu subject to change - please call to confirm the availability of specific items