and Stuart Dybeck's "Paper Lantern," whose "...words are a fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes." (Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, II, 3):
"Here, there’s nothing of heaven and earth that can’t be
consumed, nothing they haven’t found a way to turn into a delicacy: pine-nut
porridge, cassia-blossom buns, fish-fragrance-sauced pigeon, swallow’s nest
soup […] Sea urchin roe, pickled jellyfish, tripe with ginger and peppercorns,
five-fragrance grouper cheeks, cloud ears, spun-sugar apple, ginko nuts and
golden needles (which are the buds of lillies), purple seawood, bitter melon…"
Excerpted from “Paper Lantern” by Stuart Dybek, from The New Yorker magazine, reprinted in Best
American Short Stories 1996, ed. Kennison, pp.113-125 of 363.
For the entire luscious story in audio (and just like Ishin, there's more to it than food...):
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