The Geda Lama explained the nature of a dinner party in Lhasa, A number of merchants and officials are Invited to dine at a certain house. Some vegetables are produced, from where T_made no inquiry; these with some yak beef, hot peppers and garlic. are boiled for some hours and. then served @ la mode, which simply means that a ladle Is stuck in the huge pot and each quest either helps himself or is helped by the host to this enormous yale stew, Chopsticks. mi be used -but as a' rule each quest brings his own wooden bow! from which he sups or drinks the yak stew: and when the stow is finished the guest is quite at liberty to clean his own bow! with his own tongue.
The little cherry wood bow! Is neat and handy, sometimes lined with silver and the Tibetan tongue hax acquired a.dexterity of movement that would "put most "any one to shame, Tt is diMeult to imagine a dinner in Shanghai where each guest. licked his" own plate, but {t Is quite the custom In the Lind of the Lamas, Wine, T understand, may bbe indulged in by Tibetan officials and the gentry in Lhasa, but the common herd are not encouraged to partake of this beverage,
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