Chinese at home for dinner tonight. We went all out, with the intention of getting two full meals (plus some midnight snacking) out of it.
Garlic fried rice, vegetable Hakka noodles, steamed chicken with black mushrooms (similar to this and this), and mixed mushrooms with paneer for mom.
Everything turned out well except the noodles, which tasted great but were a gloppy mess — turns out they were some new no-boil version and the package timing was obviously wrong, because when my sis soaked and drained and them per directions, they were already too soft.
Mom really enjoyed the mushroom and paneer dish, which had buttons, black / dried shiitake, oyster (and some surprise king oyster in the box), and woodears, so lots of texture and flavor variety alongside the soft paneer.
It was my first time using woodears which was an interesting experience because they really blow up in size when rehydrated!
I ate the steamed chicken after a couple of years, so that was my favorite part of the meal. Also those gloppy noodles that were bizarrely tasty 
