Dining out spares people from using up the last of their paper plates or incinerating the last of their paper ovens. Reduce your disposable-cookware footprint with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai fare and drinks at Annalisa Asian Fusion Cuisine & Lounge in Aurora.

The culinary wizards at Annalisa Asian Fusion Cuisine & Lounge whip up a toothsome menu replete with Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai fare forged from fresh, high-quality ingredients. Kick off feeding frenzies with the palate-pleasing fried-scallop appetizer paired with tartar sauce ($6.99 for six pieces), or paint mouths to match newly implanted jelly-bean teeth with bites of the rainbow roll ($9.99 for eight pieces) brimming with hunger-refracting goodies including tuna, avocado, and caviar. The crab on the beach ($11.99) stars a handsome soft-shell crab lounging on a shore of steamed rice, basking in balmy surrounds amid an adoring coterie of vegetables and yellow curry. Tongue buds weary of quotidian tastes get whisked away on a tropical sojourn with nibbles of the thai-pineapple fried rice ($9.99) featuring egg, chicken, and fresh mango, and the Hue-style vermicelli soup ($7.99) hosts a protein party of beef and vietnamese ham hot-tubbing in a piquant broth.