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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1938.
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ATMOSPHERE WITH FOOD
In San Francisco
THE RAINBOW ROOM
San Francisco is a city of
a Boats bobbing up and down on the water against a back- hundred and one restaurants, where därk
they not only give you delicious ground of drying nets. food, but throw in a generous help ing of atmosphere with it.
Venetian
and
Or you can go down to the Italian quarter, where the light streams out If you are internationally mind- through the gists of ech you can sample the dishes of a blinds, where there is noise dozen nations in the area of one laughter and a babel of foreign tongues, as the doors of Lucca's city block
You can eat tamales and tortillas awing open on a continual stream while you listen to Mexican music of diners. drawn from queer stringed instru-
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They talk about Lucca's in Lon- ments by players in huge-brimmed don," screams a life-size sign over hats... you can stroll down China- a picture of a top-hatted English- town, have dinner behind the swing- man escorting a society beauty ing bamboo doors of a chop-sney, through what looks like a futurist and emerge with a pocket full of painting of Piccadilly Circus. When fortune-telling biscuits, which have you enter the room you think that
in
of a rainbow has split into a thousand A paper slip enclosed them, telling of a dark man over fragments, for each table, the water or an unexpected legacy, chair, and each waiter is dressed
Or you can be completely Hawai- in a different colour. im in a palm-filled grotto and ex- periment with poi cocktails, tasting
each
per
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last
of a
the
"Your dinner is cooked in front
of your eyes.”
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This girl's arms
are fat, so..
She shouldn't wear a frock that shows all her upper armi. Nar row shiudder -3traps will, emphasise its size and give her a top- heavy effect, which spoils the line of any frock.
She should wear a slightly draped shoulder or back panel effect that parlly covers the arm, The fit of her sleeves in day dresses is most im- portant. - Not too light; nor too loose. Jackets with sleeves at least to the elbow are good. A little cape over the shoulders works miracles.
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COLETTE'S "FASHION FLASH ''
It's a new experience to sit at a lolly pink table, on a jade green chair, to receive your soup from an orange-coated waiter, your spaghetti from one in blue, and to eat your salad from a plate quar- their dusky arms are elbowdeep in gat. It's very easy and requires no tered in vivid colours."
The
lighting is simple, just candles stuck in empty beer bottles. Weeks of dinners have covered them with a mass of coloured wax that drips down to form fantastic patterns.
CHICKEN IN THE FINGERS
Do you like chicken, and
they laugh over their work,
and
Try this recipe for making nou-
that cooking. You need 12oz. icing -84- flour, kneading the biscuits
gar, two egg whites, Goz. almonds complete the meal.
Inside the building is a dancing and pistachio nuts, vanilla flavour- floor, surrounded by tiers of chicken ing. Then make it like this: Blanch the almonds and cut up. Beat the coops on a large scale, each taining a table and chairs, and the egg whites with the icing sugar till walls above are painted with fres- a firm paste forms. Add the nuts and a few drops of the vanilla ea- coes of chicken-stealing darkies.
sence. Spread about half an inch thick on water paper, put another sheet on top, and press between two
con-
If you are seated in the top tier have and want to dance, all you have to
a
you any objection to eating it au do is to come dog slippery plates. Leave to dry in a
place.”
"Here's
warm
knife slide, which is favourite means naturel--that is, without s and fork? If you don't mind using of getting on to the floor. Rather your fingers, and you do like drastic, but quite in keeping with
children a sweet that chicken, you will find Topsy's Roost the spirit of Topsy's Roost.
Of course, you can dine în state love. Boil llb. of sugar slowly in a a most entertaining and satisfaċ-
at a luxury hotel, and have a con- small teacupful of water, boil for tory place. rather like castor oil, or struggle It is perched on the esplanade, ventional meal in conventional sur- ten minutes without stirring. Take through an immense helping of looking out over the Golden Gate, roundings, but who would want to off the fire, then add juice and grat- -fresh coconut ice cream cake. and above it is written the proud do this when there are so many ed rind of one orange. Stir with a Should you want a real American boast: "We fry more chicken than methods of dining with a difference wooden spoon until it becomes
When in San Francisco? meal, you can patronise one of the anyone else in the world." palatial chromium-plated snack bars you look through the windows, you Dozens of and order fruit salad with your wouldn't dispute it. chicken, and watermelon
pickle negro “mammies” in spotless white not are busy beside vats of boiling fat, into which they plunge baskets of chickens.
Fried golden brown, these are placed on cardboard plates and served to hungry diners.
with your grapefruit juice,
half
as bad as it sounds.
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FOND OF SEA FOOD
Americans are fond of sea food,
to the famous Fishermen's Wharf is always crowded at dinner-time. Here is the anchorage of the Italian fishing fleet. Every morning a gaily-coloured procession sets out to sea, singing as they go,
and every evening you can buy their catch from the line of stalls edg- ing the wharf.
Shrimps, prawns, lobsters, clams, and oysters are piled up in bewilder- ing confusion. Monster crabs lie on the pavement, legs waving wild- by in the air, waiting to be flung into the big boilers that stand in
the gutters.
Fires blaze, steam rises, and your dianer is cooked in front of your eyes. There is no need to get out of your car, for they bring the food on trays which hook on to its win-
dows.
POP-EYE'S CAFE
You can have a more elaborate meal at Pop-Eye's Cafe, where no- thing but finny food Through the open porthole beside Your table you can watch the little
is
served.
The cooks' white teeth flash
as
"Here is a good hint for cleaning Wipe the bulb electric light bulbs. with household soap. When the soap over with a warm flannel thickly coated is dry polish it off with a soft duster. This is a much better way than wash-
creamy, and while still liquid, pour into a jar. It will set like honey."
"If your clothes have shrunk put them in
over boiling a steamer,
Then three minutes. water for stretch them whichever way they
ing them, as it gives a really cole shrunk, repeating this
polish, and keeps off the flies in
summer.
Here's a very smart dress..
Don't
IF YOU'VE A "SWAY BACK"!
DOTMfill-in-that hollow back space
with blouse Effect. A sash tied centre back, or. flowers for evening. across a low-cut gown help enormously.
DON'T wear the cor- seleted waistline, (basques) or separate skirt and waist-effcots,
once twice. You will then find them quite all right again.”
-Do