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Tuesday 22 November 2005
Chinese New Year in colonial Malaya: Tuesday's food quotation
He had been smothered with Chinese New Year hospitality. Bird's nest, shark's fin, sucking pig, boiled duck, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, huge staring fish, sweet-and-sour prawns, stuffed gourds, crisp fried rice and chicken-wings. And whisky.
1958 Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket chapter 1