Dining Edge: Joule for Chinese New Year Winter Supper
Joule is having family style winter comfort food, Winter Supper 2010: Globe Trekker Series
Joule serves a combination of French & Korean food on their regular menu. Joule is one of the most innovative restaurants in Seattle and this series gives them the opportunity to be even more creative!
This Sunday was their Chinese New Year dinner, which I had the good fortune to attend. I’ve learned that this is the year of the metal Tiger and metal is considered silver, or white, so it is the year of the white Tiger, which comes only every 60 years.
White Tiger
In honor of the Year of the “white” Tiger they served a 7 course meal that exemplified the wishes for the new year:
Crispy spring roll, hearts of palm & taro for “gold bar”
A chilled noodle, shitake mushroom for “longevity”
Rice cake soup with oxtail dumplings for “getting one year older, and that’s a good thing!”
Sauteed escarold, grilled shrimp, xo for “luck”
Grilled chicken confit, chili, ginger for “unity”
Grilled banana leaf wrapped rice, gingko, woodear mushrooms for “treasure”
Fortune cookie, blood orange ice cream for “fortune.”
And I had a blood orange, basil bush drink based in vinegar. The whole meal made me swoon.
I know all these wishes from the food are instilled in my body fortifying me for the year of the Tiger!
These family style winter comfort food dinners, served Sundays from 3 to 9 pm, prix fix at the cost of $25/person (*will vary on some dates); $10 per child, will continue through March 28th. February 28 is Seattle’s best*; March 7 is Southern blues; March 14th is Maine story; March 21st is Izakaya Joule; March 28th is Spring in CA.
And if you can’t make this series go for their regular dinner menu other nights. But make a reservation because they fill up and even run out of food!
Happy “white” Tiger year!