The Archive · 1938

The Palace Grill

Doyen of Shanghai's good places to dine, the Palace Grill's name is coupled with Shanghai's the world over. When an author wants to bring local colour into an exciting story of Shanghai's exciting existence IN ^a of the Palace Grill ex—in comes the name Room, and he considers the thring is done.

And Shanghai people know it too as a place where one is sure of a good dinner well served, good wines, soothing music, And it is well situated for reaching all the various amusement high spots in town after you have dined, "When" E "Old-Fashioneds should be drunk in the company of did men to the tune of a chin. There should be thistles in a pewter pot.

"Manhattans should be drunk in the company of concubines.

company of more concubine "Alexanders should be aras "Stingers should be drunk/ in the company of Princeton scholars to the tune of a ukulele.

"A White Lady should be drunk by the light of the moon.

"Four White Ladies should be drunk by the light of two moons."—From the wisdom of Huangbang the Epicure in the "New Yorker."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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