2016 New year eve vegetarian dinner with colleagues' families

Had new year eve dinner at a gourmet Chinese vegetarian restaurant with two old colleagues' families in Rockville. One family lives in North Potomac, while the other is visiting from Houston. We chatted over a lot of delicious vegetarian food. Appetizers included sesame & Spanish pancake, stuffed curry dumplings, sizzling rice soup. Main courses included yellow bird with broccoli, pumpkin Chichen with mushroom in hot pot, lotus root with chicken, veggie smoked duck, spicy tofu in hot pot, etc. These mock meat dishes do not have the same textures as meats but did look much like meats and spiced the same ways. — eating vegetarian food at Yuan Fu Vegetarian.