*Beijing Roast Duck / Peking Duck
BEIJING ROAST DUCK is a famous duck dish from Beijing. This dish has been invented since the Yuan Dynasty. Nowadays, we served this dish as one of the China’s National Foods.
As you can see the above picture, the duck is roasted traditionally in an oven either a closed oven or hung oven .
Closed oven : It is built of brick and fitted with metal griddles. The oven is preheated by burning Gaoliang wood at the base. Then the duck is placed in the oven immediately after the fire burns out. Why ? It is because it allows the meat to be slowly cooked through by convection of heat within the oven.
Hung oven : It is designed to roast up to 20 ducks at the same time with an open fire fuelled by hardwood from peach or pear trees. Ducks are hung on hooks above the fire and roasted at a temp. of 270°C for 30 to 40 minutes. When the ducks are cooking, the chef may use a pole to dangle each duck closer to the fire for 30 sec intervals.
How to serve this dish?
The cooked Beijing Roast Duck is traditionally carved in front of the diners and served in 3 stages.
1) Skin is served dipped in sugar and garlic sauce;
**(The chef cut the duck skin and meat into slices)
2) The meat is then served with steamed pancakes, scallions and sweet noodle sauce;
3) The meat can be served with several vegetables, typically cucumber and carrot sticks.
(Skin, steamed pancakes, slices of cucumber and scallion and sweet noodle sauce)
The diners spread sauce over the pancake, then the meat with the vegetables are wrapped inside the pancake, and then of course taste it with your mouth lol~ :-p
We have eaten the meat and the skin of the roast duck, how about the remaining fat, meat and bones? We Chinese do not waste any food as a good manner, we will use them to make a broth (that means a soup lol).
I have tried this dish several times, it is really delicious!!! :-p When I am writing this post, I feel hungry and really want to taste it again! :-p :-p :-p
Wow, AutumnSnow, it seems delicious! It makes people hungry just the look of the pics!!
Out of context, I have tagged you here:
http://manofroma.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/random-meme/
It is a meme Poonam sort of obliged me to do. You have to copy the question texts and provide your answers in a post, like I did. At the end, you tag someone else (like I did lol). So the thing goes on and on…
All the best
Thanks for your comment, man of roma. I will try to understand how to do it with your link provided.
Best wishes
I have to say your blog is improving every day. My best compliments!
Thank you very much, man of roma. I also wish i could make it much better~
Thank you Thank you Thank you! Can’t say anything else, my mouth is watering.
I’m nominating this for the Dabido Awards~!
Ashish, actually, the idea of writing this post was from you. It’s interesting to show people about OUR CHINESE FOOD~ I will write more about it~ So you can keep your mouth watering lol~
Thanks for your comment, Ashish~