The presentation of food here, always extraordinary, will include holiday touches like bell-shaped fried wontons and turnips cut in seasonal forms.

Other appetizer choices include two crisp successes that Chinese food lovers will find familiar: light, diminutive spring rolls and a plate of seductive fried wontons.

The fried wontons all around it seemed less like a bonus than like a diversionary tactic.

It is popularly said to have originated when Japanese immigrants adapted Chinese fried wontons to sell as snacks at weekly street markets.

East and West met in vegetarian fried wontons: inside the crispy rice flour skin was a filling of spinach and cream cheese.

That sticky red sauce is still served as a dipping sauce for crisp fried wontons at the chifa La Union.

A version of fried wontons are filled with a cream cheese and crab filling; these are called crab rangoon.

Another version of fried wontons are filled with a mixture of cream cheese, green onions, soy sauce and garlic.

It consisted of fried wontons filled with shredded pork.

The fine shrimp and vegetable-packed broth boasts crisp, tasty, fried wontons that add contrasting texture as well as flavor.