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Chinese chopsticks : a manual of Chinese cookery and guide to Peiping restaurants / by Mary Li Sia (Mrs. Richard H.P. Sia).
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RBC 2026 104
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sia, Mary, 1899-1971, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, Chinese.
- Restaurants--China--Beijing.
- Restaurants.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- [4], x, [2], 63, [3], 65-106 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Peiping, China : Printed by Peiping Chronicle, [1935]
- Contents:
- Foreword / [Anna M. Bille]
- [Introduction] / [W.B. Pettus]
- Preface
- Recipes
- Menus
- Addresses of Peiping well-known restaurants
- Menus of Peiping well-known restaurants
- List of foodstuffs
- Suggestive shopping list
- Miscellaneous.
- Notes:
- Captions, addresses of restaurants, menus and list of foodstuffs also in Chinese.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center RBC 2026 104 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2026 from Caroliniana Books. Dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To Mrs. A. Keller Hope you will it useful [sic] in Peiping as well as in your home in Honolulu. Sincerely Yours, Mary Li Sia July 15 '36 Honolulu, T.H.") recording the gift of this volume from the author to Lora Keller (née Keegan; 1878-1969) on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 38731024
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