Show chinese points for hosts dont eat with your ears says yuan mel a chinese writer by which I 1 mean do not aim at having extraordinary ont of the way foods just to astonish boar guests for that is to eat with your ears not with your mouth bean curd if good is actually nicer than birds nest and better than sea slugs which are not first rate is a dish of bamboo shoots the chicken the pig the fish and the duck these are the four heroes of the table sea slugs and birds nest have no characteristic flavors of their own they are but usurpers usurp ers in the house I 1 once dined with a friend who gave us birds nests in bowls like vats holding each about four ounces of the plain boiled article the other guests applauded vigorously but I 1 smiled and eaid I 1 came here to eat birds nest not to take delivery of it wholesale temple bar |