Show aae of flour in all the chinese cities a very large percentage of the population lives in a eort ot hand to mouth fashion buy ing food from restaurants hot water is sold from stands by people who make a business of providing it the great necessity tor economy in fuel seems to be the primary cause of this mode of living restaurants are the great consumers ot foreign flour throughout central and southern china very little baked bread Is used and the flour Is consumed in the form of dough vermicelli or dumplings filled with chopped meat or meat and vegetables or fruit the flour Is made into dough and worked into a leath ery form by a man operating a bamboo fastened at one end the worker sita on the other end of the bamboo and presses and works the dough until it Is quite tough it is then pressed into thin sheets and cut into strings boiled and thus eaten or made into dump lings and then steamed and eaten in nearly every case it Is eaten while hot this foreign flour is also used quite extensively in cakes and chinese con sections of various kinds |