The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-17


Ra's and snails and puppy dogs tails
That's what little boys are made Of.
This nursery rhyme is especially true Of
the little boys of China. There are thou
sands of aImond-eyed, yellow skinned
pig-tailed little ones throughout South
China who consider the above menu g
feast. I visited rat restaurants, and
watched the cooking of
DOGS AND CATS IN TIE SOUP.
priced dried rats at many butcher shop,
and was offered plump, juicy pussies for
i1sss than the cost of their raising. was
told that the flesh of dogs would make
brave the men who ate it, and watched
not few people who smacked their lips as
they conveyed bits Of cat from their bowls
TO their mouths. These Chinese dog
restaurants are largely patronized by the
poor people of Canton. They are usually
on the ground floor, and they consist of q
kitchen at the front, and dining room in
the rear. From nails on the walls and in
the ceiling hang the dressed bodies of dogs,
which look not unlike the carcasses of
pigs, and which hang tail downwards.
Just below these, upon great beds of coal
or in oven-like stoves, are pots in which
dog and cat stews simmer away. The
meat is cut up into bits as big as the end of
a your finger, and it is fried with chestnuts
and garlic in oil, or is stewed into a sort of
soup. At the restaurant which l visited,
was told that could have
A PINT BOWL OF CAT FLESH
for 10 cents, and as a special dainty, l was
offered fried cats eyes at cents a piece.
The cats are skinned before cooking, but
the dogs are prepared for the pot in the
same way that we make our pork They
are killed. and the bodies are soused in boil
ing water to get the hair of. A little hair
Is always left on the end of the tail to show
the color of the dog, for the meat of black
dog is worth twice that Of the yellow Vari
ETY., and black cats flesh is dainty In
Come parts of China you can buy dried and
Bmoked dogs hams, and some regions
make business OF exporting them. The
season for rats is the winter, and cats are
Ngood at any time of the year.
The Chinese are She greatest pork eaters
in the world. The pigs are the scavengers
OF the city, and they root their way into
every quarter, and turn up the ground and
walow in the mire on the very edge of the
Emperor's palace in Picking. You see pigs
fer sale in every market, and the sucking
pig is the p zee de resistance at every feast
II is never eaten in the roast, however
but is hashed up INTO bits and stewed, and
this IS the case with all Chinese meats
Small bits are necessity
WHERE THE CHoPsTICKs ARE USED,
and the result is that most of the Chinese
dishes are soups or Stews or rOasts cut
fine There is little beef used in China
and good cows are practically unknown
Such milk as is offered for sale is by no
means reliable as to cleanliness and char
acter, and an English resident, who was
disappointed by his milk man, and asked
him the reason why he no longer pulled
around his milk cart, received the reply:
mo COW. Sow she die, and woman she
have moved away"
Human milk is sold in many parts of
China and when the Empress DOWager
was sick recently, it required twenty wet
nurses to keep her alive.
Where there is no milk there cannot be
butter. and you will find little butter in use
by Asiatic nations. In Japan. ali the but
Ter used by foreigners has to be imported.
The Chinese use oil in the place of butter
and the Indians use sort of substitute
for butter in ghee, which is a sort OF clari-
fed butter. The Indians are milk drink
ers, and the sacred cows supply many u
family with great part OF their food. In
egypt, butter is often made Of buifalo's
Y milk, and the result IS
WHITE, CHREsY, TAsTELEss, INsIPID MIX
TURR,
which bears no comparison TO that pro
duced from the Jersey COW. The Egyptian
eggs are very small, and their chickens are
not half the size Of ours. The Chinese are
the greatest fowl raisers in the world, and
they rank high among the egg eating ma
tlOus. They never eat an egg unless it be
boiled hard or picked, and the Chinese
preserved eggs are one Of the features of
their gaStronomy. 1t takes forty days to
cure an egg properly. 1t is not tit to eat
before that age, and after that the older
the better. Lime, salt and vinegar are
mixed together in the picking, and the egg,
when ready for use, is as black as coal
found many Of the Japanese who like their
eggs raw
RAW FISH IS A COMMON ARTICLE
of diet in both Japan and Korea, and at
tended q japanese dinner at Toxic where
slices OF white, uncooked trout were
brought in covered with ice and served as
one of the entrees. 1t was not bad to taste,
and my Japanese friends ate it with great
gUsto. In Korea, IL is not uncommon for
the fishermen to take a bottle of pepper
sauce along with them and to eat fish as
they take it from the hook, sprinkling bit
Of red-hot chilli over it, and eating it down
without cleaning anything of except the
scales. The Koreans are by no means par
ticular as 20 the manner in which their fish
aud meats are served. The entrails are
sold and eaten as well as the rest Of the
Ipeat, and common dish at big dinner is
SSsicAen baked with feathers, entrails
and all. and serted whole upon the table
The Korean is
THE GREATEST EATER IN THE WORLD,
and aC.e than any other man in the world.
he lives TO eat. The average man, the
country over. eats every thing he can get
his teeth on, and he will take q dozen
meals day If he has the chance. had
sixteen chair bearers in trip which l took
into tn interior, and these bearers stopped
at every village and at almost every house
to rest and feed. They would dart of one
by one into fields of turnips by the way
side, and for the next half-mile would go
along eating raw turnips. The bigger
mans stomach is in Korea, the more
wealthy he is supposed TO be, and you see
pot bellied youngsters every where you go.
A Korean has a short sack which comes
down just below the middle OF his waist,
and his full, baggy pantaloons are tied up
under this. Some Of the baby boys have
oUtgrewn the size Of their jackets, and you
4 see belt OF fat, yellow skin between the
ends of the pantaloons and the beginning
of the coat. Some Of the wealthy ones
wear
BUsTLRs OVER THEIR ABDoNENs
in order to increase the size Of their fronts,
and they usually make q present to those
who have audience with them. The En-
peror sent lot Of provisions to the Ameri-
can generals a few days after they arrived
IN Korea to re-orgsnize the army, and there
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