THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1936.
MOLLY CASTLE, globe-trotter, has the most interesting meal of her life-the soup and fish in Hongkong
last at a
come
CHINESE
DINNER
LARGE red card
A arrives Printed on
characters you read (that is to say, if you are a Chin- ese and have learned to
read):
"The sixth month, the fif- teenth day, four-thirty in the afternoon, the humble cups will be cleaned and your honourable And there presence awaited,"
is another fine to say who sent which the invitation and at restaurant the feast will take place.
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The table will be round, stanchines covered with a colton cloth. The eat- ing utensils will consist of a pair of chopsticks, a chinn of enamel spoon.
A small bowl, a litle soya bean sauce,
and a saucer for each guest.
-and chicken may have
five disguises in one menu
Repetition of a dish is no fault on on a skewer, are roasted golden over
Then tea is served and the hors a Chinese menu. Chicken may be an open fire.
the table, served in five different ways in the d'oeuvres are placed on araming hot cloths are brought in same meat, e for each guest to wipe his free and hands.
Tea always precedes and anishes any meal, and to the Chinese tea drinking is a cult in Itself.
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There are two vegetable dishes at party. One consists of baby The menu I have chowa is nul claborate enough for a formal ban- Sons-on-the-cob, not more than an quet; there are not enough. dishes, Inch and a half big, cooked with ban
rare enough.. But I they are not have eaten them myself at one sitting, THE hora d'oeuvres
placed on the table in and, belleve me, they will do.
How to eat melon Seed
Bre
boo shools in beef broth. The other is made of mushrooms, cooked water- eress, bean eurd, water chestnuts, and ngal bamboo shoots.
BEACH GAMES
they're fun- they'll do you good
ROUND ABOUT by
The Showman
HERE is no need to worry
about the bombs "of Eng- which General de Llano declares were dropped at Tonta on the rebel forces.
Tah manufacturers"
IF you haven't uno excuse of playing Politics a clue to the truth.
with the children, well then you can tell yourself that, even if the games are silly, they are good for your figure.. And, unless you've gone a very long way to find the sun, it won't be hot enough to Be in a daze or sun-bathe the whole day.
The fact that the Geneml hind two of these bombs on his desk for inspec- tion by anybody interested shows that they did not explode, and should have given all profound students of High advance "They were, of coursD, samples of the bricks that our dear old Government will drop when it into international plunges again affairs.
You'll feel better for a run around. Think back to the kid parties you used to go 10 You played Cat and Mouse, didn't you? The draw- ing should remind your: players stand in a circle, holding hands. One, in the centre, chooses a nice plump-look- ing, mouse who needs a bit of silm- ming. Then, running in and out under the Hiked hands, the cat gives
chase.
Once caught, the mouse becomes the cat (n kindly arrangement) and chooseg hier victim. And so on..
Among ball games, there is one that is particularly good for you if you're round-shouldered or want to improve your chest.
Teams stand la a line facing one another and about six feet apart. Each has, a beach boll, which must be thrown from one to the other down the line.
As each player throws the ball to! The on standing next her, she must The run to the other end of the Inc. Winning team is the one that is frst back in the starting order with the| first player back at the head of the file: For this game, players should stand about a foot apart and throw
the ball with their arms high above: their heads (that is the part that is good for you).
chopped up ecl in a bed of shredded seaweed; it is remarkably geod. Hunger Protest
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AND by now the meal je drawing to a close. The tablecloth is strewn with pieces: the guests sigh deeply, relux,
The host protests that his guests have had nothing to cat, are starving: presents them, to assuage these pangs of hunger, with a formal bowl of rice, before they drink their Anal
of ica.
cup
After a Chinese meal there is no
little saucers. They may consist of Hunger will teach You To the Chinese the subtlety of lingering, no boring small talk to destroy the flavour of the evening. HOUR or five dishes are these vegetable dishes les not only They came to eat. They have caten.
brought in at once, and in the mixed flavours, but also in They go.
melon seed, which the Chinese ex- pertly open with their front teeth, swallowing the kernel, blowing out
the shell;-pino-nuts; cold Chinese you dip into them with your chop- the colours and the texture: the ham, a delicacy which is placed be sileks as you please (and if you can)._clastic,smooth_or_crisp_effects on fore the guest of honour; and Ming The best way to learn to use chop- the tongue of bamboo shoots, bean sticks is to get very hungry and dine shoots, and water chestout, (And -dynasty eggs.
with some one who knows how, and Chleken Velvet is particularly liked watch him gobbling all the best bits for its smoothness.) while you are slithering around with These duck eggs are baked in front one bit of bamboo.
of a fire with a coating of mud, wheat There is Chicken Velvet, which is
chaft, and tea, for five hours.
the result you imagine they
been burled for years,
From made from chicken breasts pressed
Duck brains are Good
HE Duck is barbecued
Thole, brought in to be
have through a sieve and mixed with exhibited complete with wings, feet, sufly beaten whites of egg, chicken and head, and when it reappears cut
They serve the wine next. it is broth, cauliflower broken into flowers up the split head comes too, so that served hot ha Httle, tespot and and parboiled before it is added. the brains may be enjoyed.
drunit out of very small cups.
.
The seasoning for this consists of
Soups next: Birds' Nest, which is
It is very weak, but the Chinese chopped ginger root and soya sauce said to be (but rarely is) made from
are not as great on drinking as they
are
on eating. They play litle which Kames one particularly which we pepper.
are
Then there are tried duck livers, glutinous swallows' nests, very ex- entea with lavender pensive, with pigeons' eggs.in 11. And These usually show that a pumpkin and bacon soup into which call Ave fingers up-and It is always Peking duck is going to make its fried rice cakes are dropped, sizzling. the loser who has to drink,
appearance soon,
If sing-song girls have been ordered Roasted on a Skewer
they come in now and do their plece
before the really serious business of
Soup is calen from the small bowl with appreciative chorus from the guests.
FIVE Flavoured Beef is
made from lean beef
The fish then appears. Sweet and
food begins. Sometimes they keep rubbed in sait, half fried in lard, and Sour fish is very popular. A two- |
right on through the meal.
Meat courses
come First
then simmered unil tender with the pound fish is served whole, cleaned, It is five flavours: soya sauce, Chinese and scored down the sides. wine, Chang-which is red kidney seasoned, fried in lard.
The sauce made of vinegar. bean sauce-a -inch of aniseed, and a
Chinese wine (or sherry), sugar, rice dish is called flour, soya sauce-is poured over the Ash as soon as it (the sauce) beging to thicken.
A FTER about twenty pinch of black pepper.
minutes the main course, Another chicken arrive. The meat and vegetable Golden Coin Chicken. Alternate courses come first, then the soup, and pieces of chicken, ham, and pork, Inst the Ash.
cut to the size of a coìn and placed
The second fish course may be
SALESMAN SAM
I understand that the B.B.C. woul have broadcast this information at the end of a news summary. It auch an Interpolation had not involved the post- ponement, by one minute, of n talk on hard-boiled eggs.
Out Of The Bag
IT is a pity that the "mysterious anilmal of Btratfield Buye, neur Basingstoke, has turned out to be a cat Its name is Fully, and it has -ten claws more than are usually issürat
to cats.
Consequently my arrangement to boost the Animal aro wasted.
I had an alderman who would have Auggested it was a fight of wild pen- guins seen through the wrong end of an ominibus: Lady Angela Publicity was going to swear it was her husband stolking weasels on all fours and a former colleague was ready with his pet explanation of everything--
It's nil done by mirrors."
We Can Take It
E mother of Joe Louis said, after his victory over Sharkey: "Or eburse, I knew Joa would win. told me to himself."
This inny encourage one or two of the sensational experta, who prophe- sied that he would beat Setuneling. to
ay that they, too, knew he would beat Sharkey
I mean they can't go wrong now,
Holiday Risks
"CY kad to turn back and watch
a train,"
Having magined, perhaps, that it could keep pace with them. Lessons From Splashos
NE of a series of forthcoming
19 lecturca
entilled: scientific "Splashes And What They Teach."
The imagination is mildly stirred. in' It? For example:-
That whisky can be transformed into a water-spout by a touch of the inger:
And that it is less nudden-like not to leave the soap at the bottom of the bath.
Wags' Corner
ONE Sunday, by mistake, the sinall boy put a half-crown in the plato Instead of his customary penny.
He asked the verger afterwards if he could have it back. "I'm afraid not." was the reply.
50 the next Sunday when the plate
tho small approached him whispered "Beason."
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1 A rut bit iron (antg.).
Sounds sultable foot-wear for fowls.
10 The ape that gave the graduate
agil.
11 Seaweed.
13-This would seem to be a sulta- ble sweet with which to begin the week.
15 The spectacle that makes use
of a neat gap.
10
conceive that it is here all sey, "I am Irish, begorra, in my heart" (hidden).
17 What can be then the peel to
the apple?
21 It in a grand Zoo (anag). 23 The
car dance.
27 There is too
much French
change in harbour.
28 Fowl with two odd features.
20 Had a home on the outskirts of
Nether Felsted
in Clue 16.
32 Hidden in
33 This age is probably the best
for a ship in distress.
34 Take all the vessels in turns. 35 A catch phrase (three words,
4, 4, 3).
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2 Hidden In Clue 13.
3 A barometrical word.
1 Privato Fowler?
5 Such ways are pleasant.
A slow change,
7 These spirits are not in hell-
for from IL.
Very seedy, indeed.
12 The coach gives good advice to
the oarsman.
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this breaks loose at meetings. 15 Seeds.
18 The delective sometimes seen
hanging on to a lorry.
10 What
sweet.
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squash! But
how
20 Showing how cloven and ten
make fewer than twenty. 22 Hidden in Clue 16.
24 Sent after reference to express
indigintion.
25 A pack of bounds runs down
the side of the street.
20 Just a few words that remind
one of lights.
27 What the careful shopper did at no cost, being cold inside. 30 Made for a lady. 31 Desert
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PRETTY HEY THERE YER RIGHT, SAM, THAT CLEVER-GOES OL MAN|| WAS HIM! HE'S OWED.
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