Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit in Pleasantville

Happy Year of the Rabbit!

Thursday marked the Chinese New Year, and Pleasantville's has pulled together a special menu for the occassion. A flat $22.95 price gets you an appetizer, soup, choice of seven entrées and dessert through Feb. 22.

According to Alice Chan, a Pleasantville resident and owner of the 20-plus year-old establishment, the new year should bring some calmness compared to the year of the Tiger, which just ended, but it's still going to be a busy one.

Are you a rabbit? The answer is yes if you were born in 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987 or 1999.

The dishes featured in the video include (in order of appearance): New Year Soup (Virginia ham with silken tofu in chicken broth), shu mai and barbeque baby rib, velvet chicken with crabmeat (white meat chicken and lump crabmeat, sauteed with "our traditional egg white garlic sauce" and baby bok choy garnish), wasabi shrimp (jumbo, lightly-sauteed prawns with "our special wasabi sauce" over asapargus), sesame cake (dessert) and Mt. Emei Buddhist Delight (baby bok choy, abalone and lotus root in a light scallion sauce).