1. Small cakes (five kinds), sliced pears, candied peanuts, raw water-chestnuts, cooked water-chestnuts, hard-boiled ducks' eggs (cut into small pieces), candied walnuts, honied walnuts, shredded chicken, apricot seeds, sliced pickled plums, sliced dried smoked ham (cut into tiny pieces), shredded sea moss, watermelon seeds, shrimps, bamboo sprouts, jellied haws. All the above dishes were cold. Then followed hot: 2. Shrimps served in the shell with vinegar, sea-slugs with shredded chicken, bits of sweetened pork and shredded dough --the pork and sea-slugs being cooked and served in fragrant oil. 3. Bamboo sprouts, stewed chicken kidneys. 4. Spring chicken cooked crisp in oil. 5. Stewed sea-slugs with ginger root and bean curd, stewed fungus with reed roots and ginger tops (all hot). 6. Tarts with candied jelly, sugar dumplings with dates. 7. Hot pudding made of ``the eight precious vegetables,'' consisting of dates, watermelon seeds, chopped walnuts, chopped chestnuts, preserved oranges, lotus seeds, and two kinds of rice, all mixed and served in syrup--a delicious dish. 8. Shelled shrimps with roots of reeds and bits of hard- boiled eggs, all in one bowl with fragrant oil, biscuits coated with sweet seeds. 9. Glutinous rice in little layers with browned sugar between, minced pork dumplings, steamed biscuits. 10. Omelette with sea-slugs and bamboo sprouts, all in oil, bits of chicken stewed in oil, pork with small dumplings of flour and starch. 11. Stewed pigs' kidneys, shrimps stewed in oil, date pie. 12. Vermicelli and egg soup. 13. Stewed pork balls, reed roots, bits of hard-boiled yolks of eggs, all in oil. 14. Birds' nest soup. The appetite being pretty well sated by this time, the following delicacies were served to taper off with: 15. Chicken boiled in oil, pork swimming in a great bowl of its own fat, stewed fish stomachs, egg soup. 16. Steamed biscuit. Tea was served from the beginning and throughout the feast. It was made on the table by pouring hot water into a small pot half full of tea leaves, the pot being refilled as needed. The tea was served without cream or sugar, and was mild and delicious. Rice whiskey in tiny cups is usually served at feasts, though it was often omitted from the feasts given to us. The Chinese assert that the alcohol is necessary ``to cut the grease.'' There is certainly enough grease to cut.