And a steaming mutton hot pot kept going on the table. For dessert, how about a little steamed rice cake flavored with rice wine, homophonous for "upwards with each step." A New Year's menu like this, in which each and every dish requires rice wine, would, added all together, use up more than three 600-ml bottles.
這一桌年菜，不僅每一道菜都少不了米酒，算一算可用了三瓶多的米酒呢。