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OTHER LIQUORS.
Several distilleries are making a liquor known as Fa Chau. Of this 100 catties are prepared from :-
Molasses,
165 catties.
Tso Sui, (contents of puts for making Leu Pun Chau), 165
Of coal 90 cattios are allowed.
**
Two samples of Fa Chau were 41.5 u.p. and 38.9 u.p., respectively. Fa Chau is used for making several of the wines in which Lou Pun Chau is ordinarily used. Shüt Li Chau is made from Fa Chau and Tientsin pears.
No Mei Chau is a liquid of varied composition. Fa Chau is used for it together with No Mei or full-grown rice, or No Mei Chau is frequently sweetened Leu Pun Chau in the preparation of which No Mei or full-grown rice has been used. Shan Kut Chan is a wine prepared from Shan Kut-a very small hard bitter orange-and Fa Chau.
OTHER INDUSTRIES CARRIED ON BY SAMSHU MAKERS.
All distillers make sauce by converting Leu Pun Chau or Fa Chau into vinegar and adding the appropriate ingredients.
One distiller makes vinegar for the purpose of making white-lead as well as for sauce-making.
COST OF MATERIALS IN HONGKONG.
Rice,..
Chau Pang,
Firewood,
Coal,.
$3.00 for 100 cattics.
.$ 4.50
29
.$ 0.70 77
11
.$10.00 a ton.
Labour. A coolie gets 42 cents for every 100 catties of samshu made.
PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.
(See Table annexed).
COST TO CONSUMERS.
Samshu is a cheap beverage.
Leu Pun Chau
Sheung Ching Chau
Sam Ching Chau
.....costs five
cents a catty.
seven
19
ten
+
J
Fa Chau
Ching Mui Chau
seven
""
"1
J1
"
cight
སྭ་
Mau Kan Chau....
་་
eight
*
"1
=
Chang Chan
"
eight
17
Mui Kwai Chau
"
forty
Ka Pi Chau
17
thirty
**
Ning Mun Chau
"}
eight
19
་་
Muk Kwa Chau
"}
eight
"
Shüt Li Chau
eight
""
No Mei Chau...................
Shan Kut Chau...............
seven
"
17
eight
"
11
A visit was paid to each distillery in order to observe the processes used and the quality of the mate- rials. The processes are practically the same in all. The rice in all factories is the cheapest kind, known as Choo Mei; in no case was it unsound. The Chan Pang was of good quality. The factories were kept
in a clean condition.
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