Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-03-22
WHAT EAT,
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and Japan.

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and Japan.
Raw fish Is a common article Of diet in
both japan and Corea, and / attended q
japanese dinner at Toxic, says a corre-
spondent, where slices Of white I'M
cooked trout wero brought in, covered
with ice, and served as one OF the en-
trees. 1t was not bad to taste, and my
Japanese friends ate 1t with great gusto.
In Corea 1t Is not FOR the
fishermen TO take q bottle of pepper
sauce along with them and TO eat fish
as they take it from tho hook, sprink-
ling a bit Of red-hot chilli over it, and
eating IL down without cleaning any,
thing of excepting the scales. The
Coreans are by no means particular as
10 the manner in which their meats are
served. The entrals are sold and eaten
as well as the rest Of the meat, and a
common dish at a big dinner Is a
chicken baked, feathers, entrails and
all, and served whole upon the table.
All nations Of the east which have o
large number of Buddhists among them
arc, TO a great extent, n~on-consumers Of
meat. The Buddhists believe their an
cestors are trotting around inside the
feathers and under the hair and fur of
the animal creation, and they believe it
Is a sin to take animal life. According
70 the theory Of TRANSPORTATION of souls
q man may be chewing up the choicest
bit OF his grest-grsndfather's body when
he masticates a tenderloin steak. and
the tenderest wing Of this years spring
chicken may have trotted around under
the animation of his grandmother's
soul. To the people OF delicate sensi-
bilities possessed Of that faith which
moves mountains, such g~astronomic
membranes would spoil their feast.
1t Is for this reaso that the Burmese
and Siamese eat so little meat, and 1t Is
largely due to this that you find but
little meat consumed in the greater part
Of India.
The Corean is the greatest cater in
the world, and more than any other
man In the world, he lives TO eat. The
average man the country over eats
everything be gets his teeth on, and he
will take a dozen meals a day IL he had
the chance. had sixteen chair bearers
In a trip which / took into the interior,
and these bearers stopped at every viii
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and feed. They would dart of one by
one into the fields of turnips by the
wayside, and for the next half hour
would go along eating raw ~turnips. The
bigger a mans stomach Is in Corea the
more wealthy he is supposed to be. The
Corean country produces good meat,
and the Coreans are greater meat eaters
than either the Chinese or Japanese.
The meats of Asia are, however, very
fine. Western Japan has lately turned
TO cattle raising, and you can get as
good beef at Kobe as you can at Chi
cago. 1t is largely consumed by the
foreign population of Japa and q great
deal is shipped TO Shanghai and Hong
Kong. The finest mutton in the world
is raised in North China, and there is
no meat sweeter or better than that Of
the fat tailed sheep of Thiber. saw
thousands Of these sheep about Peking,
and in some cases the tail seemed 10 be
almost as big as the sheep. 1t grows, /
am told, as heavy as fifty pounds and
this is pure fat
In Mongolia the shepherds sometimes
make little sleds and fasten them 70
the tails, that the sheep may not be i'm
peded by dragging their 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 a diet among the Mongols.
This soup is made Of brick tea, oil tea
ground into a dust and pressed into the
form OF a brick, mixed with Sleeps tail
and water. When the water has boiled
a lump of cheese as big as an egg is
thrown into the mass, and 1t Is served
steaming hot in wooden bowls TO
guests. IL does not sound very APP
petizing, but it is greedily devoured in
tho cold regions where IL is made.
There is fine game all over China,
and you can get wild ducks for 5 or 6
cents apiece. Ducks are cheap in
Japan, and at Pekin l found the cheap
est of venison, pheasants and hares.
/ think sie markets OF Peking are as
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knd the richest of the ce)estials live
very we'll. Some of their dishes are
more costly than terrapin stew, and bird
nest soup costs S. a plate. 1t Is made
from the nest OF the swallow found in
the caves OF some of the islands Of the
Pacific ocean, and the exporting to
China of these nests is quite a business.
The material Of the nest Is made OF sea-
weed, crushed by the bird in its crop
and drawn out in fbres with which the
nest is woven and fastened to the side
Of O cliff. These nests are seldom
larger than three inches in diameter.
1t is a big job to clean them, and they
are cooked with pigeons eggs and
spices into a soup. When cooked they
look like isinglass, and 1t takes an artist