The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-30
PEDDL1NG BREADS IN CHINA.
One of the Many Sights To Be Seen
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 in Peking.


 One of the Many Sights To Be Seen
 in Picking.
 Among the marly3se curious sights in China, none present. Stranger aspect to our American eyes than the bread ped- lers and their methodsfof disposfng of tFeil5 I ares. They carry their stock in trade about with them either in oval boxes strapped t0 their. backs, or in two boxes depending from "a yoke across the shoulders, Or on trays held by strap hung from the neck and carried in front of them, after the man. ner in which the pienan of Simple fame is invariably pictured by all or thodox illustrators of sfsMother Goose" Tn the city of TsinTsin these street vendors offer three different kinds of bread for sale. Two of these are twist ed in oval shape, and the third is a thin, crisp cake sprnkled with seeds of sesame, that magic word which at once recalls to our minds the wonderful tale of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. How little we ever dreamed, when we listened, spell bound, in our childhood QdSS IO ll6 lilIllIlLS pl All Baba's adventures, that we should ever behold, far less taste, the Hateful sesame, the name of which proved so illusive to our hero at the crucial moment when he was confronted by the rock of difficulty. But the pedler's bread is not more curious than his method of selling it, for it is frequent ly disposed of by raffie, for which pur- pose he carries three dice, held in lit- tie dish.
 In Picking, the capital of the Celestial Empire, the bread pedlers generally come from the province, mostly from l shan-Tung. They are called po-po sellers. Their street cry, "Yao-chin- mantoa" Gan I sell you a pound of bread?) is often heard until late in the evening. Their bread Is made of wheat l flour and baked in hot vapors, dis I Itinguished from another kind which is baked in hot pans. They also sell several varieties of po-po, or baked goods, special favorite with the Chinese being an oval oil cake made of 1 the very best flour and usually eaten ! with pork, sausage or liver.
 The Mahometans in China have a reputation for good bread and evident | ly wish to be known as pure food advocates, for in order to enable customers to distinguish their wares from those of other vendors they ornament their carts or boxes with the Moslem emblem. This consits of a. vase containing branch of the olive | tree, on the top of which is perched the ! Mahometan cap. On each side of this design is inscribed the motto, Pure | and true Islam" These Mahometan pedlers also sell a kind of patty filled with a mixture of meat. vegetables, oil I and sago. Another of their products, which is called "la shouting va | chakuel," is, large roasted cake or dumping baked in oil. Many of these | Chinese confections are much more appetizing than one would imagine l from the description, but, like many \ foreign dishes, the taste for them must
 be acquired by cultivation before they can be thoroughly appreciated.
 The average Chilla4n. rots very lit tie bread prepared accoI ding to our American formulas. Consequently, the bakery and confectionery shops are few and far between. Like all other stores in china, they are open in front, with no partition to protect them from | the heat or cold or the dust of the streets Wooden shutters are used to 1 close them up at night. One finds practically the same wares at the l bakers as the bread pedlers offer for sale. Among them is one special kind l of cake having the figure of hare inn