The Gourmet Club by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

On the first night’s menu, the names of the dishes, if not their contents, were typical of purely Chinese cuisine, yet this was hardly the case tonight. One would have had no trouble recognizing Fried Meat, Korean Style as being Chinese, of course, as Korean Style in Chinese cooking refers to tempura: pork tempura, for example, is usually called Korean Pork. But if one interpreted something called Deep-Fried Woman, Korean Style in terms of Chinese food, it would have to mean literally “the flesh of a woman deep-fried as tempura.” So it takes no great imagination to picture the excitement it aroused when the members of the club discovered this item on that evening’s menu.

Now this dish was neither piled onto a plate nor poured into a bowl. It was wrapped in a single, very large towel from which puffs of steam rose, and was borne reverently on the shoulders of three waiters, who placed it in the center of the table. Inside the towel was a beautiful girl dressed like a Chinese fairy, lying there smiling brightly. The angelic garment that covered her whole body seemed at first glance to be made of delicately patterned white damask. In actual fact, however, it was made entirely of deep-fried tempura batter; and so, in the case of this dish, the members tasted only the “robe” that clung to the girl’s flesh.

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