Buffalo a la Mode To the Editor of the "Norta-Cumva Day NEWS"
Sm,—Long-suffering guests of many Chinese-owned, but- foreign-style boarding houses, under the nominal management of elderly ladies, are today true victims of circumstances brought about by the China Incident and are obliged to satisfy the inner man.by consuming food prepared in the main from buffalo flesh in every Shape and form.
For some months now my daily diet of buffalo has made me feel like a Grand Master of the Ancient Order of Water Buffaloes. I have consumed dishes prepared from almost every part of the lumbering quadruped, including tails, tongues, tripe and what have you belonging to the animal? The menu put before the boarders for perusal falsely describes the plat clu jour as beng ox or beef. And what i left over from some meals is often hashed up to make its appearance on ihe festive board under the name and style of "Scotch. pie." This is just another insult to Scotland.
One often wonders why our Public Health Department so passively retrains from interfering in this fraud upon guests of licensed boarding houses, or Private Hotels as they are. now styled under a recently published set of regulations. Surely a clause could be added to this set of rules forbidding misdescription of food listed on menus and providing that when buffalo flesh is served it must be so described and not false to be beef or ox, which it i I have long since decided that the name of the establishment where I have the misfortune to reside could with every justification and approwriateness be changed to "Buffalo Lodge" and so saying I ied that the buffalo running through my veins gives ample cause that I should bscribe myself Shanghai, Feb. 15, Burrato But.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.