A creamy chicken soup, another appetizer, was deeply flavored and had the bonus of tender bits of chicken and tomatoes.
It arrived under a lavalike green ooze, a creamily high-caloric green goddess dressing lumpy with tender bits of avocado.
Among the vegetable dishes, the palak paneer had tender bits of cheese in a satisfying spinach-green sea.
And I'd bounce half-heartedly off the springboard and land - thud - on the top, straddled on my tender bits.
Sweet-and-sour soup with tamarind, brimming with tender bits of tilapia plus cabbage, carrots, broccoli, baby corn and cauliflower.
In pastas, the spare, elegant trend of my second visit continued in the rigatoni Siciliana, with tender bits of eggplant and halved grape tomatoes laced with ricotta salata.
The enhancement is that the TSA agent now gets right in there and gropes nearer the possibly ne'er-do-well passengers' tender bits.... I'm flying to Boston tomorrow.
Other winners were the gyu-don, thinly sliced sautéed beef with onions, green beans and enoki mushrooms over rice; and the chicken yaki udon, with tender bits of sautéed meat mixed with vegetables over noodles.
A small, blimpish squid, stuffed with tender bits of shrimp and fennel puree, is a brilliant orchestration of delicate flavors and textures, with an exclamation point provided by a tart blood-orange emulsion.
At Guh Song, this is a thick, rich, inky black bean sauce loaded with tender bits of beef or pork and minced raw onions that add a kind of cumulative gentle spiciness.
