The pork-filled gyoza featured tender, paper-thin wrappers.
Some appetizers are meant to be shared, like the seafood charcuterie ($12), which includes thick rounds of soft tuna sausage and tender, paper-thin slices of octopus, or slices of venison cacciatorino ($10), an intense hard salami served with earthy chicken liver crostini.
Yet this is the ideal world envisaged by some of Malaysia's activists championing the Islamic gold dinar and silver dirham as a new form of legal tender to replace paper money – a utopia that could see the light of day as early as the middle of next month.
Wearing ear plugs and goggles, machine tenders thread the paper and check for cuts and open flaps in each bag, making as many as 200,000 in an eight-hour shift.
Baltimore pit bosses use top round, not brisket, and to make this flavorful but tough cut of beef tender, they shave it paper-thin on a meat slicer.
It's in this interzone between intense structure and those first years of freedom that you'll find Paper Towns, a tender, wise mainstream coming-of-age drama that's still all over the place.
They tie me to a chair with a giant clip and hold a piece of paper to my tender nip.
The idea of making paper money legal tender was controversial, and William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was among many who opposed the proposal.
Not wanting to go back upstairs to retrieve the note, He tried to visualize the figures written on the slip of paper she had tendered Him.
Daintier was "the Bounty," a beautiful array of raw and cooked vegetables — tiny crunchy radishes with their tops, tender rounds of sweet potato, paper-thin fried slices of beet — with little cruets of shallot labne and a walnut bagna cauda for dipping, all nestled in a shallow ceramic bowl.
But with one or two exceptions -- like an untitled canvas in which a fancy Moorish-looking grid of bold black arabesques and circles protects an area of squares hatched with fine lines in tender pink -- the works on paper are more impressive.
