Peking Duck

This article actually isn't a recipe,just telling you how to eat Peking duck and the Peking duck's culture.

Peking duck with its succulent delicacy, good taste, rich nutrient, fragrant smell contain many unsaturated fatty acids which does not save in the human body and is easy to digest. Duck's epidermis includes the massive collagen--the cosmetology high quality goods can anti-aging.The duck meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, various Vitamins and the minerals .Nutrient-rich duck meat, suitable for the summer and autumn consumption, not only can supply consuming excessively nutrition, but may eliminate the illness the summer burning hot weather brings to the human body.

There are various ways to eat Peking duck. Generally we use the knife to cut the whole grilled duck into thin slice pieces with both meat and skin, dip it into the sweet noodle sauce, adds the spring onion and the cucumber and wrap it with the lotus-leaf pancake. Spring Onion ,which is a little bit hot, helps to promote appetite. The Sweet noodle sauce provides rich fragrance. The cucumber makes it feel fresh while carries away the greasy taste and spring pancake could let us enjoy fragrance of the wheat. Besides the Peking duck taste best when its served hot ,otherwise it may has a smell of mutton flavor.

After finishing eating the duck ,the duck bone is left over. Put it directly into boiling water with some amount of ginger，green onion and seasonings. 15 minutes later add a little salt in and the duck soup is done. The tasty duck soup, maintain the original flavor of Peking duck,will surely get your mouth watering.

 

Quanjude is the very place where many people realize their ‘Beijing roast duck dream'. The numerous heads of different states who visit China would choose to taste Beijing roast duck here. People who come to Quanjude not only eat the roast duck but also can understand the roast duck culture and the unceasing history as well.

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Beijing roast duck, which is famous for its red color, delicate flesh and its mellow flavor, enjoys a good reputation everywhere .In the Liao Dynasty ,the emperor used to hunt for some rareness, and he occasionally attained this pure white wild duck which afterwards developed into this valuable species of duck meat. Later with the historical development, the roast duck technology passes to Beijing.Along with the dynasty replacement, roast duck has become the Ming and Qing court taste and then the official name is “Beijing roast duck”. Afterwards, Beijing roast duck along with society's development has passed to the folk gradually by the imperial palace. The two most notable restaurants in Beijing which serve this delicacy are Quanjude and Bianyifang.