The egg creams (soda water mixed with chocolate or vanilla syrup and milk) and cherry-lime rickeys (lime juice and maraschino cherries mixed with lemon-lime soda) are not to be missed here.

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There would also be a soup, usually made of spinach or watercress or bamboo shoots mixed with dried shrimp, tofu, or egg drops, or even rice crust.

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There was a bison tartare, which came buried under a soft-boiled quail egg, and was meant to be mixed all together with the gouda cheese and rosemary mustard vinaigrette that were included.

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The surprises continued, with mixed onions in a chilled pine infusion and then a coddled free-range egg with woodland mushrooms and smoked butter.

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