Slicing
The slicing of the meat from the carcass of the duck is an art in itself. A skilled chef is able to cut between 100 and 120 slices in four or five minutes, each slice with an equal portion of both skin and meat.
How to eat
Pick up a pancake in one hand and, using a piece of raw scallion as a brush, paint a few splashes of bean sauce on the pancake. Next, place the scallion at the center of the pancake, and use your chopsticks to add a few pieces of duck, finally rolling it up like a burrito.
Restaurants
The Quanjude Restaurant, the largest roast duck restaurant in Beijing—if not in the world!—opened for business in 1979. Located near Hepingmen Gate (Peace Gate), it has a floor space of 15,000 square meters divided into 41 dining halls, including one, which can serve 600 customers at once. The dining halls reserved for overseas guests can accommodate a total of 2,000 diners, and include a hall where all-duck banquets in which all the dishes are made from parts of the duck can be served to 600 people. When filled to capacity, Quanjude Restaurant can serve as many as 5,000 meals a day.
To satisfy the growing demand for roast duck, and with an eye on the profits to be made, many restaurants were opened.
Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant Add. 14, Qianmen Xidajie; Tel: 86-10-65112418.
Beijing Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant Add. 32, Qianmen Street; Tel: 86-10-67011379.
Beijing Wangfujing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant Add. 13, Shuaifuyuan Hutong, Dongcheng District; Tel: 86-10-65253310.
Beijing Jingxin Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant Add. A2 Dongsanhuan Beilu, Chaoyang District; Tel: 86-10-64660895.
Beijing Hepingmen Roast Duck Restaurant Add. Hepingmen Dajie, Xuanwu District; Tel: 86-10-6552 3745.
Bianyifang Roast Duck Restaurant Add. A2 Chongwenmenwai Dajie, Chongwen District; Tel: 86-10-67120505.
Editor: Wen Yi
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