To the Editor of the "Nonmii-Cinxa Day News"
Sm.—1 have Just read Dr. Victor G, Heiser's "An American Doctor's Odyssey" und td the followin con feasts in all ports of Chinn for 29 years and not only never saw a dish of this sort but never heard of one. Can it be that T have missed something or is Uhls only another sailor's tale about China?
Scernicat, Shanghai, Nov. 25, The Explanation the Editur of the wat what Dr. Helser ate was live shrimps, not "many-leguad, live bugs Eevera inches long and. resembling roaches in colour." This is the sort of fanciful exaggeration not uncom monly. indulged in by those who write books about China and want {ell things to make the credible People at home wonder and gape equivalent of the Chinese "Hai Shrimps served alive are welt= known dish In Hengchow. "I remember eating them in the famous ramshackle old restaurant on one of the picturesque small islands where tradition has it thatthe great Emperor Ch'ien Lung himself once feasted, The shrimps are served fresh from the West Lake, alive, chopped raw xinger only doing sprinkled over them. The dish is covered over with fan inverted porcelain bowl, to prevent the shrimps from all' jumping out of the dish, and you can hear them leaping against the bowl.
The op it Into one's mouth, droit movement of the teeth and tongue extract the juicy body of the shrimp. The empty shell is transferred again by chopsticks the table beside one's own plate.
The Cantonese in Canton and Hongkong and here eat a kind of beetle with polished back wings neatly folded aver m sen Body, with riy head and brown ix, They peat off the wings, tour sway the legs and head, beetle ae one would cat candy nuts, UC have been assured they are or for the life of ae 10 Dung mysel to try une. The tonese the tried chrysalis of the It is supposed to be ved for heat for for cooling it, 1 forget which greatly relished. "The taste is like a lly walt. One chew was Shanghat, Nov,
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