Fresh lemons, sesame seeds, and lotus-filled mooncakes are ready accroutements, set upon the luncheon table beside a gaiwan of oolong tea.
Menu
Basmati Brown Rice & Chow Mein
Japanese Eggplant, grilled with Sweet Basil
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Fried Tofu Puffs and Quorn
Steamed Lotus-filled Buns
Avocado Slices and Olives
Oolong Tea
Pie
Altogether brave or dexterious! No forks were used by those as the 'low table'. Surprisingly, the chop-sticks served as very useful tools.

Colorful, unusual, salty and sweet. . .seaweed, fried tofu puffs, lotus-filled rolls, and the more familiar flavors of chow mein. 100% vegetarian and delicious!
America, the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
1913
HAPPY 4th of JULY
Photo: Ripening wheat in foothills of the Blue Mountains
This is the day the Lord has made!
Let us delight and rejoice in it!
God is so good!