Cooking Chinese Food

This evening I made Chinese food and served it on red plates for Valentine's Day combined with Chinese New Year. I found several recipes online for foods that are supposed to make one live long and prosper.

Above are some of the ingredients for chicken and shitake mushrooms
wrapped in lettuce leaves. The finished dish:

I also made angel hair pasta with a sesame-peanut sauce,
garnished with cilantro, green onion, and lime slices.
And below, the ingredients for steamed fish with aromatics and baby bok choy.

The fish:

I wrote about Chinese traditions for New Years a few days ago; see Chinese Valentine's New Year.