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

mothers soul. To people of delicate sen
sibilities possessed of that faith which
moves mountains such gastronomic remem
berances would spoil their feast. 1t is fol
this reason that the Burmese and Siamest
eat so little meat, and it is largely due tC
this that you find but little meat consumed
in the greater part Of India.
THE MEATS OF INDIA ARE,
however, very fine Eastern Japan has
| lately turned to cattle raising, and you can
get as good beef at Kobe as you can at
! Chicago. It is largely consumed by the
! foreign population OF Japan, and q great
deal of it is shipped to Shanghai and Hong
Kong. The finest mutton in the world is
raised in north China ana there is no meat
| sweeter or better than that of the fat TITLED
sheep of Tibet. l saw thousands of these
sheep about Picking, and in some cases the
tail seemed to be almost as big as the sheep.
1t grows, l am told, as heavy as fifty
pounds and this is pure fat. In Mongolia
the shepherds sometimes make little sleds
and fasten them to the tails in order that
the sheep may not be impeded by dragging
its own tail, and this tail is considered the
most delicate part of the sheep. 1t is used
by the Tartars in making the tea soup
which is so common an article of diet
among the Mongols. This soup is made of
brick tea or tea ground into dust and
pressed into the form of q brick, mixed
with sleeps tail water; when the water
has boiled lump Of cheese as big as an egg
is thrown into the mass and it is served
steaming hot in wooden bowls to guests
1t does not sound very appetizing but 1t IS
greedily devouredi in the cold regions where
ii is made.
THERE IS FINE GAME
all over China, and you can get wild ducks
for five or six cents apiece. Ducks are
cheap in Japan, and ut Pekin l found the
finest of venison, pheasants and hares.
think the markets of Picking are as fine as
those Of any capital in the world, aud the
richest of the celestiais live very well.
Some of their dishes are more costly than
terrapin stew, and bird nest soup costs IS
plate. 1t is made from the nest of the
swallow found in the caves in some of the
islands of the Pacific Ocean. and the ex
porting to China of these nests is quite
business. The material of the nest is made
of sea weed, crushed by the biru III its crop
and drawn out in fbres with which the
nest is woven and fastened to the side of
cliff. These nests are seldom larger than
three inches in diameter. Ii is big Job to
clean them, and they are cooked with
pigeons eggs and spice into soup. When
cooked they look like isinglass. and it takes
an artist to prepare them for the table.
AhONG lhE O1nLh SOiA1OOS 1h1Nbo
consumed by the Chinese are shark fins
and sailed ducks. Ducks are sailed and
dried as we dry beef, and you will find
sailed ducks and geese everywhere. The
Chinese are very fond of pumpkin seed and
watermelon seed, and at their big dinners
they often have these beside each plate for
their guests to nibble at between courses.
Colonel DENLY, our minister to China, des-
cribed a dinner to me at which there were
sixty courses, and dinners Of one hundred
courses are not unknown In looking over
a Chinese bill of fare see many appetizing
tidbits. Here for instance, is a course OF
ducks liVers, one of the fried roofs of the
mouths of pigs, another of the cooked
webbed-feet of ducks, third of fish fins
and fourth OF pigeon eggs.
THE BREAD OF DIFFERENT AsIATIc NATIONS
is worthy Of mention. In China, India,
Japan and Korea by no means all the peO-
pie live upon rice. In north China much
wheat is used, and northern India is one OF
the greatest wheat growing districts of the
world. The Chinese boil all their bread
instead of baking it, or if baked at all, it is
Drowned after boiling. In Egypt the bread
of the lowest classes is largely made of
sorghum seed, and in north India and
north China millet is largely used. Both
Chinese and japanese are fond Of sweet
cake, and IN Japan one Of the most popular
cakes IS almost exactly like our sponge
cake. 1t is said to have been brought over
from Holland by the Dutch Christians
when they came to Japan centuries ago,
and you viii now ind It all over the
country. The Turks are very fond Of
sweet cake. and the sweet cake peddler of
Cairo and ConstautinOple are the noisiest
Of their kind. II is the same with candy
as it is with cake. Some Of the best candy
have ever eaten l bought of pig-tailed
merchant in the Chinese city of Picking.
He had nut candy of ali kinds, and he told
me he Imported some of lis nuts from
Mongolia for his shop. The Smyrna liz
paste is noted the world over, and you will
find it in every confectioner's store in the
country. Turkish nugget is one of the
faToriJe dainties of the harem, and it tastes
better when you eat it fresh at CONSTANT
nople than when it is six months old and is
sold in America. At dinner which I
once attended in upper Egypt we had
course of candy between each one of the
other courses, and we had at least ten
desserts during the meal. The Turkish
tooth is a very sweet tooth, and with
sweotened water, sherbets, candies and
cakes he makes his thick blood flow slower
and slower.
AT least half the world know not