The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-03
THINGS CH|NAMEN EAT,
Many Peculiar and Strange Dishes
are Mentioned on a Menu
Card.
The Monaghan Yearns to Be a
High Liver, and Often
Succeeds.
large Black Beetles Bring Five Cents
Each and are Delicacies-Pork
the Favorite Meat.

A Chinese dinner menu is a lengthy pub
LEGATION, and is a veritable roster of almost
everything OIL this mundane sphere that
walks. creep, flies. swims or remains
stationary. It has varied attractions both
for the student of entomology and the
botanist. From a scholastic point of view
it is interesting, but the epicure with the
leass Kit of sentiment in his character
would regard it with well-grounded preju-
dice. In his diet tho Monaghan has di-
vested him of all superstitious ideas, and
has evidently confscated everything in
reach for conversion into a palatable dish,
says the Chronicle. In youthful DAYS
birds neat SOUP was credited with being
a horrible evidence of Chinese barbarian.
but it is nothing worse than Irish moss, AMI
is the most palatable of all Chinese
connections for the table. The
epicurean taste which shows its
exalted cultivation by relishinc
''ripe' game and poultry is totally eclipse1
by the Chinese gourmand, who would scorn
the idea Of even looking at the capon that
was not in a fair way of attaining the end
arrived at by all flesh.
Tho absorbing ambition of the Monaghan
AZ ~ w oiiA w ldAA as SUCH
he must indeed be ona of the worlds
upper ten IN a financial sense to crafty
his object in life.
Chinese dcl!cacy stores, which strikinply
compare in attractiveness with a we'll
stocked museum, number a full score in
the Monaghan quarter of this CITY, Amonp
the htst exhibits spread on narrow trsys so
tempting to Chinese eyes are large Black
beetles thoroughly dried. They are consid-
cred a great dessert delicacy, and are re-
tailed to customers at five cents per beetle,
Small cakes of bean curd wrapped in vel
low COVERINGS and bearing Chinese i%nscrin-
tons are other aliurements which greet the
vision of the heather epicure. Thew sre
small cAeeses made from milk curd and the
pulp OF boiled beans pressed into cakes,
Dried ducks split Gown the back, pressed
nat and anolnted with oil to render then
lnnerVious TO the air. are q sight that gen
orally lncltes Il purchase if tho customer
has the requisite 40 cents. Dressed SHAH
inns are q relish for which the Monpoljan
displays q marked liking. He must pay
$l.75 n Lound if he desires to crafty his
appetite at such expense.
A can, from which arises a vile and of
iensiVe door, contains a quantity of small
birds, about the size of swallows, p-eseryed
In OIL. Duck eggs are another delicacy,
preserved IN a similar manner. Chinese
tomales are composed of duck eggs and
pork. combined with rice and wraTped in
plantain leaves. The Chisese WAY Of udd.
ing to the attraetiyeness of the oyster is to
string q score o. moro of the biyalyes on a
small whlsp of bamboo and allow them to
dry and discolor at leisure. They ara dis
posed OF at 80 cents a pound. Shrimps are
skewersd by two whisps of bamboo and
festoon the windows of almost eysry first
rate dolicacy store.
Hong Yee'' is the trade name of a spc-
cies of goldfish, caught in Mexican waters.
which is dried and shipped in large quaint
ties to this city and is highly esteemed.