Take ordinary white beans, or dried lima beans, and soak over night in lukewarm water. In the morning take a large cloth, wet it, and set it on a table. Over this spread the beans. The cloth must be kept wet. In a night or two the beans will have sprouted. Use the sprouts as directed in the chop suey recipes.
BEVERAGES
Tea, of course, is the staple drink of both the Chinese and the Japanese, and it comes in any number of varieties. Of the Chinese teas a few may be especially recommended, such as Loong Taing, Long Gue, Oolong, and Lung Sue. Of the Japanese teas, Gyukura, or, in English, Pearl Dews, tea is delicious. Coconut milk with flower petals floating in it is another favorite beverage. Chinese whisky and wine are very strong, and have a smoky flavor much appreciated by the epicure. Saké, famous as chief drink of the Japanese, is a sort of rice wine, with a curious salty-sweet taste to it. It is very good, when once one becomes accustomed to it.
LIST OF GROCERIES
Chinese and Japanese
Almonds, Chinese
Apricots, green and red, crystallized
Apricots, green, preserved
Bacon, Chinese
Bamboo shoots
Beans and peas, various kinds of
Bean sprouts
Bird's-nest by box or pound
Carambola, crystallized
Carambola, preserved
Cherry blossoms, crystallized
Chicken neck
Duck, dried
Eggs, preserved
Fish, all kinds of
Fish, dried
Fruit, mixed, preserved
Ginger in sirup
Ginger, preserved
Ginger, sour pickled
Ginger, sugar, dried
Ginger, sweet pickled
Hams, Chinese
Honey candy
Kumquats, preserved
Lily-root candy
Limes, golden, crystallized
Limes, golden, preserved
Lotus seeds
Lychee nuts
Lychees, preserved
Melon and pumpkin seeds, salted
Mushrooms, canned
Mushrooms, Chinese dried
Mushrooms, fresh
Noodles, Chinese (all kinds)
Nuts, all kinds of mixed
Nuts, salted
Owa Okashi
Pineapple, preserved
Prunes, Chinese
Rice cakes, boxed, all kinds of
San Char go
Star fruit, crystallized
Sui Sin Fu candy
Syou (Chinese sauce)
Tofu (Japanese fried cakes)
Vegetables, fresh Chinese
Water chestnuts
Yohan candy
INDEX
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Preface 1
PART I. CHINESE RECIPES
CAKES
Almond Cakes 64
Golden Cakes (Gum Lu) 65
Gum Lu (Golden Cakes) 65
Lai Yut (Beautiful Moon Tarts) 65
Tarts, Beautiful Moon (Lai Yut) 65
CHOP SUEYS
Chicken and Pork Chop Suey (Gai Yuk Chee Yuk) 44
Chop Suey (Plain) 46
Duck Chop Suey 42
Extra White Chop Suey 41
Gai Yuk Chee Yuk (Chicken and Pork Chop Suey) 44
Gar Lu Chop Suey (with Chinese Dried Mushrooms) 43
CHOW MAINS
Chicken Chow Main 48
Lobster Chow Main 49
Meat Chow Main 47
FISH
Curry Shrimps 25
Dried Shrimp Stew 25
Fish Cakes (Yew) 23
Lobster Omelette 21
Pickled Fish, Cold 22
Pineapple Fish 21
Shrimps, Curry 25
Shrimp Omelette 24
Sweet and Sour Fish (Ten Sune Gune) 20
Ten Sune Gune (Sweet and Sour Fish) 20
Yew (Fish Cakes) 23
FRIED RICE
