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Interesting News Stories

REG THOMAS visits a small factory at Kal Tak to tell you the secret of the Chengs success

THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1856.

From All Parts Of The World

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

MAKING SOYA SAUCE WITH AN 800-YEAR OLD RECIPE Ingredients: Beans, Brinė And Lots Of Sunshine

THOUGH there are now more modern ways than one to make soya who has tried them all → sauce, Amoy-born Mr Cheng Yok-Lam

avers that the best sauces can still be produced only by the method used when this Worcester relish of the Orient first became a must to the Chinese palate during the Han Dynasty - some 800 years ago.

This process can be seen to- A usual mixture of the Chengs central healing day at the Fukien Canning in 10 plculs of soyabean to 15 of fact,

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methos.

In

#ll the time of bottllar, pallently product is now entrusted to his care almost entirely.

out the water. Which is 3.300 pounds they put in boller. Nearly a ton and a half, if you like your figures rounder.

Company's Bauce factory fresh which Mr Chong and hi younger brothers, Yok-Keo and Yok-Chui, Jointly

and Sin

Own

operate at Wong Tai village out Kal Tak way.

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The yellow, Manchurian-grown beans are not unice dried peas.

Beans basking in the sun.

They

sume

Laste the

ond, Their plant is neither large nor elaborate. Simpy un similarly, come from a vegetable yard the nerve

pod-bearing plant, five or six to a pod.

centre-cOVET -

ing area less than an acre. A brine tank and a fermentation shed, and a boiler room, housing ¡wo

Iron massive

cauldrona, wherein a batch of soya sauce to be is its 9-month Jurney to the bottle.

JAMES HAYTER NIGEL PATRICK JAMES DONALD KATHLEEN HARISSON JOYCE GRENFELL HERMIONE GINGOLD

The

DONALD WOLFIT HERMIONE VADDELEY HARRY FOWLER DIAM HART - KIAN PEAR

WILLIAM HARTNELI SAM COSTA WALTER FILIGERAD GLOIGE KOTET

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Charles Dickens great comedy-wib the greatest comedy sasi ever

Pickwick Papers

ADAPTED AND DIRECTTO BY HORI LANGITY A LANGTY AUNTER PRODUCTION

KINOWN MCTURES

COMING TO THE LEE THEATRE

Like Sultanas

While being boiled overnight for five hours, as with rice, the beans absorb the water that is not evaporated, and become the colour and swell to the size of large sullants, If they were sicameo, this singe would but Afteen minutes.

Next day, tte beau

dusted with plain

to

take

arc

Briny Dip

Glying off a ripe fruity odour

from the the bents are taken fermentation shed to the vari There they are left to ferment more as they saturate in brin he salt is frm Stampd hart sunshine in 400-pound capacity, Swatow-made glazed on the sun's tars. Depending benevolent, this l ermally for a period of six months.

One butch 1s 10 of these jars And every culty of bean from them yields two catties of sayu Which. Tar their bir—~ -hould we say the sun't-gives the Chengs 6,000-cdd 21-ounce bottles.

afler

The

This is, however, beans

have become 0 weli. mash in matured, concentrated

the first jare. which is then broken down in salt water for ten days in a second set, and the fluid from these strained of into a third 10--to aland

Byn for three

ox-

to the posed months more.

Then... well, soya sauce.

there's

our

11-2

1. M. Reg. U. S. Fat 0. Caps, 1964 by kid Berriet, Sr.

"I've got a date with Eddle tonight, Mom-he's coming over to watch the fights on TV while I wash my hair}"

In Search Of

Records With A Pipe

Montreal

Gerson Heck, of Montreal, will represent Canada at the annual Montreal version of the world pipe-smoking championship next March.

22:0 Montreal Maple Leaf which Pipe Smoking Club, sponsons the annual event, has announced that Heck, who was Canada's entry last year, out- lasted 24 others in an elimina- Ro than contest held recently. puffed away contentedly for 40 minutes.

At that, however, it was only half the time he spent smoking one piperul in last year's Inter- be national contest, in which camo second.

Paul Lauderback of Los An- geles, holds the Montreal ver- sion of the world pipe-smoking endurance contest with a time of one hour 50 minutes, estab- Uched in March.

It is understood that entries have been received already from ave countries, with two other countries showing in- tekst in the contest to be held here next March 28.-United Pros

New Experiments In U.S.A. To Combat Lightning

San Francisco.

ever

"Project Sky Fire," a plan to combat lightning in the sky instead of on the ground. is probably the most ambitious forest Bre prevention programme undertaken in America.

Dr

Barrows ex-

"Sky Fire" aims at nothing the Munitalp Foundation of New 40,000 feet," Dr less than breaking up the roll-York, set up "Sky Fire" in 1882. plained. Sometimes the stream retards lightning storms but st ing cumulus clouds which carry A cloud-seeding expert, Or rather, in this pure form, 'ghtning over the huge western Vincent J. Schaefer, Research other times it aids them.

Dr Barrows sold it would be Director of Munitalp, is working wo more there we have what is better forests.

years before "Sky TU.S. Forest Service hopes with foresters to determine how Fire" does any actual cloud known as Sung Chow; the thin.

the lightning seeding. to attack lighter-coloured sauce.

Teikoo-hat soon, thanks to "destroy carrying clouds. The theory de supplied calomel--burnt sugar-they will be able

He said sooding might cause silver iodide colours and thickens Low Chow.lightning clouds with piry ice that dry ice or

abnormal rainfall or abnormal the dark brand

"bomba" or shoot them to pieces dropped into a cloud will cause dry spells and "wo're not going

became with "Bak" from sliver lodide moisture particles to

to do any seeding until enough to fall in rein know exactly what's going to heavy generators on the ground,

drops, thus breaking clouds up.

"Before we can start actual happen."-United Press. cloud seeding experiments," Dr Barrows

"we want to explained, locate

where, clouds are born, where they're likely to go and the kind of weather they bring with them.

Export 40 P.C.

•

Two Years Old

A co-operative research pro- Elght batches producing Ave jeet, "Sky Fire" is only two hundred plculs, or roughly 24

years old But according to Dr tons, is the modest monthly out-

Jack Barrows, director of the put of the Chengs' small piduralert, much new and valuable world factory. Sixty per cent of

weather information has been

"Our look-outs cover about discovered already. its is sold locally, and the TOM casks to

28,000,000 acres of forest land. mrinder exported in on

Dr Borrowa, whose head- Southeast

Each day they make five reports countries throughout

is the quarters Asin and to the UK, America. Forest and Range

Intermountain

44 they Experiment and map the clouds and-but recently-..

station at Missoula, Montana, grow and move."

scribed "Sky Fire to a recent Jet Stream's Role

four and

deep spread out an inch cartwheel-size bamboo trays which need two replies to it.

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shelves in the briek, oven-like fermentation There they stay for four room, to five days but not before another formating agency added to the flour

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Yet the brothers are not happy about their expanding is trade

as might be expected. They sadly foresee the day when they

too will have to meet demands by forcing Chow from

ho soyabean

three month modern way.

"Just think," they say, "of all the sunshine we'll be wasting."

"This ingredient, which gel from Japan, is a special for- mula of our own," the senior Cheng cautiously confides, "and is, of course, our trade secret."

But from here on, there 19 nothing clse secretive about the

process which Wha age-old carried on bi Anoy by three generations of Chengs before the family set up shop in Hongkong twenty-four years ago.

Though steam could again be used to maintain the all im- portant temperature of 70 to 80 Cheng brothers degrees, the simply place their faith in un- shine; resorting to charcoal stoves when it unkindly falls them. In the next phase also, old Sol unwittingly plays major role instead of rupla

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From this information, "in tho wester United Barrows said, "w States," he said, "lightning is analysis of what storms are on

where they the greatest single

of the cause

years over 145,000 lightning-fires The project also is investiga- have occurred in the 12 western ring the jet stream's effect states.

lightning storms. The jet stream To combat this menace, the is "ike a mammoth river of 'air and botween 20,000 U.S.F.S. and a

group, flowing

private

HEMINGWAY'S YOUNG BROTHER

TELLS YOU HOW

TO MAKE HOME-BREW WINE

New York.

A new book has been published by Hemingway. It probably won't win any prizes, but it ought to make a lot of new friends for the author, Leicester Hemlag. way, Ernest's young brother.

cost of the sugar OF

on counting the enemies, depending how wives will take to the idea and yeast.

But what Hemingway is of having their husbands down in the basement making home- proud of are the recipes he un- brew.

earthed in months of research.

The title is "Drink it your- scifi"

The

happiest It tells all to become

the

how-to-do-it book." you need to know.

your own bootlegger.

"But wine-making in

we

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Wine can be made out of just about anything that grows. You i can make it out of rose petals or the blossoms of black-eyed Susans, out of rhubarb or cab- bage, or just plain grasi,

The book carries the begin-

HE'S JUST ner through 'his' first try at. a

home is not illegal. That's the GIVEN HIS

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eagerly,

offering a frat edition of what might prove to be the greatest thing sinice Mrs. Beaton's cook book.

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102nd PINT

OF

BLOOD

Huntington.

Frank Halliwell is a man who insists that if you're healthy you won't miss a few pints of blood now and then, And 'he has proved it..

simple squatsed grape concoc- tion through such exotic pro ductions as a wine which calls for "12 pounds of sugar, two pounds of honey, four gallons of water,

two four egg whites, pecks of marigold, petals, two pounds of raisins, three orange rinds, four ounces of rock candy and two cakes of yeast." United Press.

Radio-Controlled Traffic Lights For Chicago

Chicago.

"Fow people realise it but Federni pw allows the head of any family to make up to '200 gallons of wine a year in his own home, tax free. You just send away for a permit and you're all set," he said.

This discovery drove Mr. Halliwell contributed his Hemingway into the pursuit of 102nd pint of blood lost week hobby and during a stop-off on what has wine-making as a

A contráci, to design, and. thence into the authorship of become a kind of personal his, credit,The sound of the campaign to help keep the Red manufacture a Chicago radio- trumpet," published lost year. Croad blood banks stocked. He controlled traffic light system. In his slimy primer for has donated blood for 13 years the first of its kind in the amateur winemakers Homing in 17 different states.

world, has been lot to was sketches a hobby of un- "I just believe, people don't Gonent dectric Company limited horizóna and ·Homunal · know how important. bloodThe new, systom, expected to expense. No expensive power donations, are,” Lán 39-year-old be in operation in the months". tools to buy. Bask equipment dairy worker wald, He sailmated time, will be used initially at 19 for, the winemaker is a jug. the his travelled: 805,000 miles fritereact ona., Bynnhronhition of on his blood-donation tripa. Lhw lights will be directed from «A: Clothesline

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On November 15th, 1961 the Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers ruled that no watch should carry the title Official Timing chronometre unless it had been awarded Certificate by one of the five Selts Government Testing Stations situated at Bienne, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, St. Imir and Le Sentier

As the beginning of each year these Testing Stations publish yourly reports with details of the walch mov ments submissed to them, the nåpnes of manufacturers and the rest of the tests. Report' of the five Testing Stations publishod early in 1994 reveal that in 1963 the Swiss Watchmaking Industry, produced thé record, mum-'

·ber of 48,628 wrist-chronometers.

This le en eloquent testimonial to the continzing progres of Switserland's chief exporting fodustiy,

·Your guarantee of quality, craftmanship and accuracy... Every Rolex Chronometer bear the words - Official Certified Chronometer" da in dial, and is incompanied by the Rolex Sad Seal good that it has posal thi djuroon toiska oľ ́ á Series Government 'Testing Station and hua: received 'zi

· Official, "Timing Certificate.

The Manufacturers of Rolex watches at Bienne and Genes were the first for many years to concentrate ori the serial production of Chronometer movements Up to 31st December 1963 Rolex have obtained no less then 230,615 Official Timing Certificates, of which 30,555 were for the year 1953 aloo.

Thus in 1963 Rolex obtained at any of all Certificates ispoed to the entire Swin Watchmaking Industry. An Official Timing Certificate in, in fact,'an incontestable gerarder of quality, craftsmanship and accuracys. In consequence the price of west-chronomèters is bound to be higher than that of ordinary watches. Through the channels of the top-ranking jewellers of the’world, these remarkable precision, Instruments have become the prized portions of the padet eminent personalities of our età, to whom the exact poemremant of time is imperulva.

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