Arizona republican., 1910-02-25
THEY LOVE STALE EGGS.

1 that are mouths and months Uid as 1 the American would be of an egg just ] from the nest. if he could possibly get it. In fact, the only eggs which are
 eggs with them are five or six weeks
 old before they can get them. The egg which the Chinaman dotes on
 comes from China. and it doesn't come l to the United States in cold storage. 1 But the Chinaman doesn't kick so long as the eggs come regularly. says the New, Orleans Times Democrat The egg the Orientais like is the duck cgg. The Chinese have no 'eartlr- | ly use for a common hen egg, and | merely cat them now and then be- cause there is scarcity in the duck cgg market And the duck eggs laid ! by ducks in this country do not ap-
 peal to .he Chinese. either. The Unit
 cd States laid duck egg to them is just two degrees better than the hen
 egg produced by the great American hen. As matter of fact. tffe China man prefers everything in the eating
 line to come from his own horne-the
 land of the poppy, the tongs, the old.
 old people, and the great, great pros-
 poets for the future. H
 But about the duck eggs-the duck
 eggs from the land across the broad
 old Pacific! Thousands of these eggs
 are shipped to the United States every
 year They are atl for the Chinese.
 in various Chinatowns in the different
 American cities. These eggs go to
 Chinese commission house in San
 Francisco and are then reshipped
 about over the country. some of them
 to New Orleans. others to Washing
 ton and many dozens each month to the Chinese merchants in New York.
 At these stores the China duck eggs are retailed at cents each and some times the eggs are sold three for a
 dime. In fact, the Chinese duck egg market fluctuates now and then. just like the old reliable hen egg market, but as rule it is more steady. sum- mer and winter alike.
 These eggs from China do not come in cold storage. because the Chinese invented a sort of storage themselves long before the freezing process was ever thought about by man in this or any other country. Being old-fash- toned and all that, the Chinaman uses mud to preserve his egg, and it serves the purpose much better in many in- stances than the cold-storage system in this country. Before being shipped, in fact within day or two after being gathered. zach egg that is be- ing prepared for a long journey to a foreign land. Is treated by this mud process of covering that has been known to the Chinese for hundreds of years and handed down from one gen. eration to another.
 The mud is a sort of clay. A thin coating is applied to each egg. This mud dries. It is hard. - The egg is | sealed and will keep-well, the China men sometimes eat them when they have been over in this country more than half year
 But when you go to a Chinese eat ing house and order some of their | dishes with egg therein don't imagine for a minute that you are getting | some of the Chinsman's favorite duck !! fruit dish. This egg he gives you is I the ordinary restaurant kind. But1 away back in the kitchen somewhere in a little dark corner. there will be I a basketful of something else that | resembles mud balls. nearly the size ! of baseball. That is the Chinaman's favorite dish.
 When Chinaman gets good andI lonely and tired of smoking the pipe-l either kind-and gets to thinking of his old friends at home and wonder ing what they are about, whether they are asleep or awake. and begins 10 dream of the good things he used 10 have to eat at home when he was l boy, that is when he sueaks back into the kitchen, grabs one of these little mud balls. or two of them, and ias/ a dish that is fit for the cm- peror.