A Japanese Lady’s Dinner.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IX, 30 August 1902, Page 542

A Japanese Lady’s Dinner.

Over-eating is not a sin which one can lay at the door of the dainty little almond-eyed Flower of Japan. She begins the day by eat:ng, when she wakes, a couple of little green plums, pickled in vinegar, and rolled in sugar. This almost traditional

breakfast of Japan is completed by a cup of tea. The dinner, which is brought in on a red lacquer tray, is the drollest affair. The viands are in tiny cups with covers, and among them are such dainties as hashed sparrow, a

stuffed prawn, a salt sweet-meat, seaweed with sauce, and a sugared chilli. After these dishes, which are mere “frills,” the substantial part of the meal is begun. A wooden bowl, bound with copper, is brought in. filled to the brim with rice plainly boiled in

water. From this tne Flower of Jap an fills her bowl—a capacious one!--and, having mixed it with a black sauce flavoured with fish, she then lifts it to her mouth, and crams it down with the aid o' her chopsticks. Thus ends her dinner.