the meal a nd the soup isn't served first. A typical Chinese dinner st('ut、 with four cold dishes, perhaps includ ing salted shrimps or sliced kidn*-> s and continues through <-i^ht main dishes, such as sauteed crab meat, whole duck or steamed fish. Some-、vh('n' in between the main courses, two sweet dishes are served―maybe suj:;i]cd apple slices or lotus soup with glutinous rice dumplings. Finally, there will be two more meat dishes s(»rv(v] to accompany the bowls of rice and a soup. That should wind up the m(、al. Warm rice wine is served until the final courses appear.
A simple moal would include one largo mixed cold platter, four to six main dishes, a sweet dish and a soup.
As each course is placed on the table, the guests help themselves to as much as they want. They may use their own chopsticks or spoons when scr'vinR themselves.
In a restaurant, diners usually order a number of dishes by mutual aproomont and everybody eats a little of every dish.
II you go to a Chinese restaurant, the food probably will be Cantonese. For those who want to experiment with the dishes of other regions, many cookbooks are available in bookstores ;I n(I libraries.
Chinese cooking is fun, and the pleasure in the eating cannot be sur-passod.
N \K< ISSIIS LEGEND
(Continued from Pago 6) and fragrant blooms you found in your tract of lowland are a gift from Heaven, and were originally reared by the Immortals along the limpid stream which runs through your land.
"Lot th(、 flowers be known as Suisinfah (or Shui-Hsicn-Hua). May they be a symbol of good fortune which can only be had through kindness in deeds as well as in words. Only kind people will find these flowers in full bloom on Now Year's Day in their homes. Let this bo known to all."
S.F. Chinese World
Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut.
Almost everything is overtaxed these days, including patience.
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