The New Asia Hot chuen Road, on Friday scone of a large gathering of members Of the Oxford and Cambridge Society and their wives and. friends. The entire seventh floor was reserved for the: party.
Chinese members of the society feted as hosts to their British cole Teagues. Rarely in the annals of the society have so many factors combined (o enhance the success of the function, In the large dining hall tables were laid for 140 guests, form. ing a V-shaped arrangement facing the stage, on which during the course of the evening Chinese conjurers and acrobats performed, followed by twu ancient songs exquisitely sung by Mrs. C. F. Liu, accompanied by Chinese stringed orchestra, The menu card was a model last and simplicity, ted with two cords of light and dark blue silk intertwined and held together by a coral bead. On the third page were sted choice dishes of shark's fins, linfeng chicken, bird's nest soup, and pigeon's eggs, prawns with Yunnan ham, mandarin fish with lemon sauce, Canton rice-birds, yeefoo noodles, eightjewel pudding, and almond tea. Another feature was a complete list of members printed on the fourth page of the card.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.