Mothers put delicious dishes on the dining table and call out to the kids playing outside to come in; family members who returned home from far away gather around the table, talking and laughing; dinnertime during Chinese New Year is the time of reunion. Lovers make lingering eye contact; with wine, music and roses, even bloody steak tastes honey sweet; dinnertime for lovers is the time of love. Go through the rush hour traffic and grab a microwaved bento from a convenience store; meet the silence of space when walking into the house; dinnertime for someone who lives away from family is the time of loneliness.