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HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.
A VISIT TO THE CENTRAL FISH MARKET.
AMONG LETHARGIC LOBSTERS AND SOMNOLENT SOLES.
MEET THE COLONY'S SAM ISAACS."
[By HERBERT FIELD.]
Have you ever heard the Chinese equivalent to "Cockles and mussels, Alive, alive Oh?" If you are member of the Hong Kong Volun- teer Defence Corps and can borrow a respirator, you can satisfy your curiosity, if you like, by paying an early-morning visit to Central Market.
But it is well to take a respira tor with you, for Dame Rumour has it that four niggers once strolled into the Market before they were aware of the surroundings.
"Sambo!" said one in a muffled
tone of voice," dere'a de debbil of a smell right now ["?
"Rastus" accused the other, faintly, dore ain't no smell it's yo' ears too near yo' nose !"
O, Sole Miol; t "How would you like to be sea-snake ?" he asked a momeat later as we paused beside a tub of them.
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is extremely doubtful anybody has ever seen that gentleman. In deed, I firmly believe. "There ain't po such person!" Yet Mr. Isaacs is very well advertised. Every Not much," I replied. "For where one goes in the world's one thing, I'd be all over the place greatest city one aces signs hang at once, and one half of me ing over fish restaurants bearing wouldn't know how the other half the legend- Sam Isaac's Fish was living! No doubt I'dfuld make Restaurant-The Plaice for Good ends meet alright, but I might get Sales." Nor does the legend lie or into & corner one day and start exaggerate, for Mr. Jennes is one of making love to my owa tail with the largest fish salesmen in Lon- out knowing it!"
don, and one feels that his plaice Salmon does for Gluckstein. bear the same love for him that
Then we came to the sole section.
of
have beard it said that, provid. ing no" lemene are abost, a sole is
But what manner
man can the happiest thing in water and eay, in all truth, that he has met the lovelicet to watch on a hot day: either Mr. Salmon, Mr. Gluckstein, No doubt but, you see, the soles or Mr. Sam Isaacs! we were looking at didn't appear Оос
The other 'two couldn't answer. any too cheerful. Their eyes were Isaacs always see the "Sam
They died.
of Hong Kong, however,
too close together for one thing, He sits, serene and indifferent to and they didn't smell any better the smells and din around him, " Goo' Mornin', 'Erb!”
than they looked. They wore a fx. quickly puffing at a pipe with a Mind you, it is not the fish ex-feel rather miserable."
ed, ginsay stare which made me very long thick stem and a very posed for sale which smells. Fresh-
tiny metal bowl, on top of ef fish baskets.
y caught, most of them still living bright idea struck tiny com and splashing in tubs half-flied panion at the same instant that the with water, they are inspected full blast of the perfame from the minutely by members of the Sani- soles hit me on the nose.
Ab, ha!" he said, "these bare tary Department's staff, who are so alert that a fish suffering from a been condemned, and are going in headache, or the effects of an over-to be destroyed " might spree, even, could not be smuggled into the market.
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Yet there is a smell which per- sista so strongly that only a Saui tary Inspector or fish-market coolie can stand it verily be lieve that a Billingsgate porter would faint if he were taken and dumped inside the market without a week's warning in writing!
Taking my rose firmly between the forefinger and thumb of my right hand, I essayed a tour of the market in company with a Sanitary Inspector, Mark Star. Just inside the main gateway we paused to look at a large fish swimming around in a huge tub. Since then I have been afraid to take my
should haunt my dreams i
To me, the work of destruction seemed to be more than usually complete already. I doubt whether whole crateful of lemon would have bestirred those roles into any visible activity although, of course, there would be the danger that their efflavin might be creased. 1
pile
On his left, sweating half-naked coolies wrestle with huge baskets of live fish of all descriptions, whila voluble arah-voiced junk and sam pan messes direct. their labours. Ah Hong, the "Sam Isaacs "' of Central Market, smokes and thinks as his foki huggle and bargain with the fishers who are attempt ing to sell him their Fard-glosned harvests of the deep.
On his right, other fokis are conducting noisy transactions with in-hotel and chow.shop buyers and Jong strings of coolies of both sexes--the women certainly wear- ing more clothes than the men. but locking infinitely cooler-atand waiting to seize loads of fish and rash of with them to the premises of the buyers.
Monsters in Mail, Surely, the largest loosters in the world are caught round Hong Kong! We saw basket after baske of them, their great claws bound with a thin strand of rattan to prevent them rending each other.,
In the background, one or two Yet the lobsters were disappoint Ab Hong and know that the fish be Europeana stand aloof. They trust ing. Looking like terribly ferocious cells bar been swimming about in
usual nightcap in ease that fit / Prehistoric monsters in mail, they the tank-like hold of a junk all attempted little beyond waving night is, therefore, quite fresh. other and looking horribly blue, their antennee feebly at one na-Also, Ah Hong, will not fleece them, There appeared to be something fourth of the price he demands.
for they will only pay him lacking. as if the lobsters were
ont-
It reminded me of an old-time London Cabby 71 bound for the Derby. It was a bluey-green fish with a red waistcoat, and wore a battle.worn warriors who had And Ah Hong1 Fat, placid and lovely pair of black eyes. grown tired of wars and rumours serene, his naked torso glistening "face
was almost as red as its of wars. It seemed that even the with perspiration, he site fanning waistcoat. Looking at me stolidly Intest Press, reports of an outbreak himself and gently shaking one leg for a moment, it opened its mouth of war in Canton could not cause which is crossed over the other, as if it was saying, Good mornin', their boot-button eyes to register thinking, thinking, thinking. Erb Then it blew a few bubbles, emotion. The lobsters, every one sharp eyes, as is demonstrated But nothing misses his half-closed and tamed its tail to me as if to of them, looked as though they
say, Take it out of that, guvnor were made to storm fortresses and when he suddenly grabs a long That fish is considered a great lead great armies to battle, but bamboo pole and gives a lazy coolie delicacy by the Chinese," proffered here
& resounding thwark across the my guide.
shoulders with it.
What's it called ?" I asked, with
a shuddere
"Come and have a look at some giant soles," he replied.
What a failure!
Mr. Samuel Isaacs, Every Londoner is familiar with the name Sara Isaacs, although it
"
It is all very interesting but, nothing loth, I follow my cam- ranion readily into the doubtfully
fresh" air outside.
Diary of Coming Events.
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(October 10,)
General Holiday. Chinese National Day.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 2.18.
Compradores Association, 10 a.m. China Merchants Club, At Home,
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CricketInterport Trial, Hong Kang CC. ground, 11.a.m.
Bowls: Koloon D.R.C. Shanghai..
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Friday. (October 11) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
Bowls Yacht Club v. Shanghai, Tea Dance: Hong Kong Hotel, p.m.
Billiards: Steel Coulson League: Winners v. Rest. Somerset .I. Sergts. Mess, 6 p.m.
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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
H.K.C.C. annual meeting, Club Pavilion, 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Chinese
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