Rice cake wrapped around red bean ice cream, fried tempura banana and the fried green tea ice cream all were relatively light ways to finish a meal of fish and rice, though, like the restaurant, they were neither serene nor simple.
"Drifting Clouds of the Autumn Sky" turned out to be fried green tea dumplings.
During our visits, there was only fried green tea ice cream and, once, a chocolate cake, to be had.
Common trigger foods include tomatoes and citrus fruits, fatty or fried foods, tea, coffee and other caffeinated beverages, chocolate, alcohol, mint, garlic, onions and spicy foods.
At stops along a 32km path that at the peak reaches a height of 4,500m, workers set up kitchens producing noodles, fried food, sugary tea and stodgy sweets.
Milliner Jayne Elwell, from Sedgwick, who created the teapot, stamp, fried breakfast, afternoon tea and crown-shaped hats, said: "This is such a big year for Britain so we wanted to go for a patriotic theme.
WHAT WE LIKED Chop house wedge, calamari, ahi tuna poke, roasted marrow bones, Caesar salad; sweet tea fried chicken, beef short ribs, braised pork shank, lobster pot pie, New York strip; broccoli rabe, creamed spinach; ice cream.
"A lot of the new little shops selling buns, fried chicken, bubble tea and shaved ice are in college towns," she said, beyond Asian-American enclaves where the shops are also thriving, like the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, the Bay Area and New York City's three Chinatowns.
On a Cumbrian A-road west of Kendal, we passed a layby in which was situated a typical British roadside snack bar: a white caravan, a couple of plastic garden chairs, pink and yellow DayGlo cardboard stars advertising chips and fried breakfasts and tea.
A breakfast buffet that includes Chinese tea, fried noodles and pork dumplings goes for $1.25.
