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No. 29069. XAHIARAN 日叁初月陸年申壬 HONG KONG. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1932. 参拜禮 日陸月柒年式佰玖仟登英Price

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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teMAY 20, 1931, until Further Natios (all previous

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Kowloon

Dep. 6.40805) 8,28 218 10.10 12.00 1.18 2.35 4.02 4.413 5.85 7.40

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Taipo Market... Dop 7.18 Fanling

Shoangshui. Dep. 7.85

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Carbon

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Taumati... Dpp. 6,45

9.94 10.24 12.08 1.20...

4.49 0.69 7.48

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GOOD FOODS THAT WE

DO NOT EAT

SOME «NEGLECTED DAINTIES:

BY E G. BOULENGER, Director of the London Zoological Society's Aquarium,

Projudice, the cripple child of In Great Britain the only rodents ignorance is man's hand-maiden.caten are the rabbit and the bare. She stands beside him at the table. condemning him to make merry upon veryday dishes as chops and tapioca pudding, when the world around him is full of the choicest

Na No. No. No. delicacies, tit-bits, and bon bouches that lie within the means of even the slenderest purse,

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Dap. 7.24 8.0 10.08

10.84 11.38 2.35 4.23 8107017.11

11,46 2,42 430 |17|

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Sundays and Public Holidays only

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(July 6)

Opening of the New Garden Theatre, Praya eliai, 7.30 p.m.

Laumertation, Wan

of Household Furniture, 40, Village Road, 10.30

Whist Drives at Seamen's In stitute and Kowloon Dock, 9)

P.il. Lawn Bowls:-Open Champion ship: S. Randle . J. B. Chapman. L. E. Longbottom. H. Hampton,

The Romans, who had little, im anything, to learn from modern Europe in methoda culinary, Chade a special cult of dormice, subjecting them to an elaborate course of fat- toning, und positively weighing them in the presence of the casembled. M. Jack r. C. G. Silva (C.C.c guests. In certain parts of China 4.30 p.m. mice are eaten.

It is a dish for the élite on special occasions.

The mice are newly

Prejudice dogs the diner's feet at every turn. The great proportion of creatures that adorn that land and aca are definitely edible, | born-naked, hairloss, and very though, of course, some are better pink, and they are served in" a than others, and the only way to large dish on the floor. The guests ascertain which is to try them all. sit round the dish and each dips Not that enthusiasm has ever led his mouse, held daintily by the tail the writer to carry this to the same between forefinger and thirnb, and extent as did the Into Frank Buck pops: it into a sauce which kills it. land, who was a famous figure of It is then ducked in treacle, which, the Jalter half of the last century, so it is declared, gives it just the and for a time was on the staff of fright flavour. the. London Zoo, As a result, his The eggs of all kinds of birds opportunities to try strange dishes may be placed in two groups: (1) were obviously many, and he took excellent, (2) impossiblet One in fall advantage of them all. On rethe first group that came before: turning once from a week's holiday my notice some years ago was the who ascertained that a jaguar was orphan egg of a Zoo ostrich., With

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cutlets to be excellent.

Sea Creatures,

the kid of a bicycle pump its con-

'tents wero-amptied out into various mugs, basins and other receptacles, and a very excellent omelette lor twelve diners was the results.

Python Steak.

In the Far East á fetish attaches to all glutinous foods÷birds' "nesta

"A walk through the fish markets of the Mediterranean will be na the inexperienced eye-opener to diner, for there a host of ercatures, bere taboo, are not exposed for salo, and may be sumpled in the soup, shark's fin soup, and beche restaurants disguised by do rer. This last is merely a huge various romantic titles-and the sea cucumber, a orenture nearly culinary art.

allied to the starfish, and specially abundant off the Great Barrier Reef.

local

The great sea squirts, for ex ample, which one may seo hanging from the walls of caves exposed at low tide, are known in Marseilles as "violets de mer." The waiter brings a dish of trem looking like big potatoes tastily decorated with bright scraps of seaweed, coral spruce, and ornamental shella. Tom select your "violet," and the whiter presently returns with it neatly. sliced, each half revealing a bright_ yellow or lemon patch shaped like an omelette.

Spider crabs far excel the com- mon edible grab in delicacy of flavour, but one seldom sees them sold for food in England.

Very similar species are dredged in great numbers off our coasts and put overboard as rubbish.

The idea of eating reptiles would.

Lawn Tennis:-Mixed Doubles: Ladies' R.C. . Club de Recreio, K.C.C. . U.S.R.C., C.R.C. . In dian R.C.; "C" Division: C.R.C. v. S. China, Indian R.C. 1. Univer- sity, H.K.C.CY.M.C.A., Police

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Central Theatre: "Suicide Fleet." Queen's Theatre: "Four Infantry Men."

"The Silent

King's Theatre: Witnesa."

Star. Theatre: "Great Meadow:" World Theatre: "A Death Fear ing Hero" (Chinese filmu).

Majestic Theatre: "For Defence."

the

Tea Dances at King'e Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Re- pulse Bay Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides: High at 12 and 10.10; Low at 3.93 and 17.50.

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THURSDAY.

(July 7.)

Suez

Slight Heat (sido-shu). Whist Drive at the Police Recrea-. tion Club, Happy Valley, 8.30 p.m. Weekly Meeting of the Theoso- phical Society, & p.m.

Queen's Theatre:, Men."

be regarded by most people as im- possible. But what of turtle soup? Snake compares well with an iguana lizard-another recognised King's Theatre: | trans-Atlantic dainty, and in many Play." parts of Africa python steak is a popular dish.

Frog-legs are, of course, approved generally on the Continent, though they are scarcely worth the pick- ing. It depends upon one's ap petite. Frogs with sufficiently large hind-lege, however, make a worthy dish, and as a result, the large bull-frog. of America has suffered:!

Though framed in some quartere on a big scale, commercial avarite has caused this harmless beast to become increasingly rare. Unfortu nately, the bull-frog cannot survive

The world's record crab is of the spidary species, and hails from Japan. Although the shell is but twelve inches acrose, it has a ten- foot leg span, and walks, so to speak, on enormous stilts in deep water. At high tide it enters inlets, where it in trapped and securely Inahed to a special "baïúboo frame like an enormous cart wheel with the British winter if kept out of ten spokes. In the market it is dis- doors, otherwise this amphibian membered and sold at so much might be farmed by every pond joint, a single segment from one of keeper. the legs making a meal for a family.

Edible Enails,

Snails are in high favour in Con tinental restaurants, Two thousand years ago the Romans reared their snails on meal and white wine, and gave the snail fumer the honour that was due to him.

** Bouillabaisse.!!

Throughout the Mediterranean до species of fish, molluse or crusta ceen is deemed unworthy of the pot. Congers, bullheads, sea sanila, octo- puses, squids, and a host of uny The edible snail, which is com fish hers regarded as beneath notice, mon upon the Surrey hills, is

"Four Infantry

"Cheaters at

Central Theatre: Heaven or Earth."

Garden Theatre: "The Smiling Lieutenant."

World Theatre: "Song of the West."

Star Theatre: "Great Meadow." Majestic Theatre: "For the Defence."!

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, King's Restaurant and Peninsula Hotel.

Tides:High at 00.40 and 11,00; Low at 4.05 and 19.34.

insects, their close relatives, raiso shudder in the most adventurous. Fabre, the Homer, of the insecti work, was emboldened to revive some ancient recipes, and sampled both locusts and grasshoppers, His opinion was that, though good, they were so small as scarcely to repay the trouble of preparation

The enthusiasm with which Northern gourmets hail the oyster each recurrent autumn palce to nothing before the hilarious furore go to the making of that appetiserroneously supposed to tuve been associated with the marine polado introduced into England by the worm of the South Sea Islands ing and highly-coloured" hot-pot"

Romans

Whole districts devote themselves:

known as “bouillabaisse,a-dish-

Crabs, shrimps and tobaters ofte its harvesting and consignments are rushed to restaurants and that may be diversified by such ad- every kind and description are markets north, south, cast bad Editions as pipe fish outtlefish and baten-in-enormous quantity, but west by every conceivable means of

even the horaid-looking son horse. (Continued at foot of next column.) transport

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