A dose of guaifenesin, plain and simple Robitussin / To liquify the mucus membranes

It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.

The Chinese population of Taiwan is divided into 4 groups: Taiwanese, mainland Chinese, Hakkanese, and Aborigines. The Taiwanese, the largest group, are descendants from emigrants who left mainland China during the 17th to 19th centuries. Most were from Fuchien Province on the southeast coast of China.[…]The third population is Hakkanese (Taiwan-Hakka), originally from Chung Yuan, who immigrated from the Kwangtung and Fuchien provinces on the southern coast of China and who came to Taiwan primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries.

[T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.