Here, the paddy fields are alive with barefoot men delicately planting tender rice seedlings and oxen lazing in the sun.
A green bean and lotus root salad, in a frothy sesame paste emulsion, delicately balanced tender, woody bamboo root, served with crispy green beans, pumpkin seeds and disks of lotus.
One pound of delicately sweet and tender duck breast lightly smoked over apple wood, $62.
Duck flambé arrives on an actual silver platter, to be set afire before your eyes, yielding a plethora of delicately smoky, unusually tender, crispy-skinned duck parts.
Every portal of my being was wide open and love poured freely into and out from my heart as I delicately negotiated those tender days.
Delicately marbled, ultra-tender, it made steak knives almost superfluous.
Wry and tender and delicately melancholic, "Woman on the Beach" shows a newly confident filmmaker again working near the top of his form after the disappointing "Tale of Cinema" (2005), even if the new film unfolds straightforwardly, with none of the narrative ellipses and puzzle-box complications, the flashbacks and parallel story lines of his earlier work.
The crust was tender inside and delicately crisp outside and the tomatoes were sweet and unmessed with.
Expertly prepared baked kibbie ($6.39 for a sandwich, $10.99 for a platter) is redolent of pine nuts, chopped beef and onions, and is at once delicately crunchy and fall-apart tender.
By this point, the flesh is nicely tender and the flavour delicately sweet.
Cod cakes, however, were a pleasant revelation: tender, egg-shaped puffs, delicately fried and served neat, needing not one drop of goopy dipping sauce.
