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Show COURSES AT CHINESE DINNER), Wondrous Edibles Served at San Francisco Fran-cisco Banquet. At a Chinese dinner given in San Francisco in honor of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson these were among the queer things served: Bird's nest soup came in four different courses. According Accord-ing to one guest, it was transparent, tasteless, utterly uninviting, and more like wallpaper paste than anything' else. Chinese nuts took the place ot salted almonds. Then there were dried eels sliced in chicken broth, sharks cooked in a dozen ways and served in several courses, "lotus flower," consisting of a slice of fat pork, a slice of dried duck and a piece of preserved watermelon, so arranged that one could take a bit of all three at once; dried mushrooms, turtles, preserved pre-served ducks' eggs, sharks air bladders blad-ders in oil, abalone meat, a dainty worth its weight in gold, being a tin part of a little sea animal; the web of duck's feet, duck which had been baked, stuffed with muchrooms and steamed, and almond gruel. |