CHOP, WOK & TALK! 5404 PENN AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA 15206 412-362-0679 www.chopwoktalk.com<http://www.chopwoktalk.com/> FRENCH DINNER: 10/29, 6:00-9:00 PM/$65.00 cheese fondue, coq au vin (chicken in wine) dauphinoise potatoes, asparagus & mushrooms topped with a tarragon crème fraiche, roasted beet salad with orange dressing, walnuts, and blue cheese, plus a Normandy pear tart with almond filling. ELEGANT ENTERTAINING: 11/2, 6:00-9:00 PM/$70.00 Creamy butternut squash soup and apple soup topped with rum crème fraiche, pork rib roast with roasted fig and pistachio stuffing, spinach salad with a cheese stuffed pear and a warm port dressing, cranberry-cherry walnut chutney, and a chocolate almond soufflé torte for dessert HOLIDAY SIDE DISHES: 11/3, 6:00-9:00 PM/$50.00 Holiday salad with citrus, mixed greens, red onions, & pomegranates, candied carrots with orange marmalade, rum & pecans, mashed potato casserole with mascarpone, gouda, & bacon, sweet potato soufflé, pear, blue cheese, bacon and red leaf lettuce salad with pumpernickel croutons, savory asparagus bread pudding with gruyere cheese & herbs TAPAS: 11/8, 6:00-9:00 PM/$65.00 shrimp in Manzanilla sherry cream sauce, patatas bravas (spicy fried potatoes), grilled chorizo kebabs, fried cheese with red and green tomato jam, baked leeks with Serrano ham, salad with oranges, mint and fennel, roasted sweet onions with Cabrales blue cheese, almonds & chives, fried dessert fritter filled with egg custard, plus Spanish coffee & sangria MOROCCAN: 11/10, 6:00-9:00 PM/$65.00 Lamb shish kebabs in pita pockets with red pepper puree, tagine of chicken with pomegrantes and walnuts, lemon couscous with pignolia nuts and raisins, fried briouts with chicken and garnished with oranges & mint, tangerine, parsley & olive salad, Moroccan chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and ice cream, mint tea & Moroccan coffee HOLIDAY BAKING & CANDY MAKING: 11/12 & 11/19, 11:00-2:30/$150.00 FOR 2 CLASSES & 2 LUNCHES mini nut rolls, eggnog truffles, a variety of chocolate barks, caramels, English toffee, tiger butter, cashew butter brittle, holiday stollen with almond paste with dried cherries, salted praline butter cookies, cranberry chocolate tart, sticky lemon rolls with lemon cream cheese glaze, chocolate powdered sugar fingers, and no bake chocolate Kahlua Christmas balls (bring containers) CHINESE I: 11/14 & 11/21, 6:00-9:00 PM/$120.00 FOR 2 CLASSES wonton soup, Szechuan peanut noodles, Mandarin beef with snow peas and red peppers in a brown sauce, fresh vegetable spring rolls with a lime cilantro sauce, honey hoisin ribs, pork pot stickers, lettuce wraps, fried meat savories with apricot sauce, Kung Pao pork with peppers, corn, water chestnuts and peanuts in a hot sauce, mango chicken, fried rice and crab rangoons with a blackberry ginger sauce INDIAN DINNER: 11/15, 6:00-9:00 PM/$60.00 Potato samosas with fresh mint sauce, naan, chicken tikka masala, lamb meatballs in a cashew almond gravy, saffron rice, mango chutney, cucumber riata, and gulab jamun (milk balls in a cardamom syrup) for dessert THAI I: 11/22 & 11/29, 6:00-9:00 PM/$120.00 FOR 2 CLASSES chicken coconut soup, spring rolls with plum sauce, green chicken curry, shrimp pad Thai, corn fritters with a cucumber & peanut sauce, pineapple fried rice, mango sticky rice, pork panang curry with basil, pineapple & peanuts, pesto salmon with a spicy sour cherry sauce, peanutty pork baskets, firecracker beef salad with rice noodles, and coconut flan with Thai banana sauce CALL FOR GIFT CERTIFICATES OR TO ARRANGE A PRIVATE PARTY OF 6-10 PEOPLE.