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Show A CHINESE RESTAURANNT. Probably the most aristocratic of the Chinese restaurants in San Francisco Fran-cisco is the "Car Look Hin," adjoining adjoin-ing the theatre, on the south side of Jackson street. It is under the personal per-sonal management of Kum Cook Yuen, who is esteemed one of the most popular of Chinese restaurateurs on this coast. The patronage of this restaurant embraces between twelve and fifteen hundred daily, a great proportion of whom are regular boarders. These are usually charged by the month, $10 being about the average scale. The dishes served in the most part are highly conglomerate, conglomer-ate, and every viand is minced fine before leaving the hands of the cook, the use of the knife being eschewed at the China board. An ordinary course would include roast duck in peanut oil, tlried gizzards minced and stewed in oil, salad or dried shrimps with onions, a bowl of boiled rice, boiled greens, pot of tea, and condiments, condi-ments, including the Chinese substitute substi-tute for Worcestershire sauce, which has a strength and flavor about medium me-dium between creosote and oil of vitriol. vit-riol. Such a feast would stand the heathen. or the Christianlif he chooses to indulge the dainties, at about two bits. The economical can satisfy the cravings of hunger quite effectually, even at this aristocratic establishment, establish-ment, at the moderate expenditure of a short bit. It is patronized by all classes of the Chinese, aa their means permit, including female boarders;1 but the latter are strictly confined to tables assigned to them, it being considered con-sidered the depth of degradation for a Chinese gentleman to partake of food from the same board with a woman. The heathen epicure can contract a bill for a single feast rauging as high as a dollar or upward, if he chooses to go through the bdl of delicacies and call on the soups of birds' nests and sharks' fins, the material for which is imported; and there is also a great variety of daintily-prepared pastry, rich cakes, nut cakes, preserved pre-served fruits, confectionery, etc. The restaurants havo large cooking ranges, and the operations ot the eKimfi seem ts be conducted much in the same style as at the corresponding correspond-ing establishments maintained by the Christian community. S. F, Call. |