Peking Duck is a famous specialty dish from Northeast - China, especially in Beijing. Starting from the Nguyen dynasty (1206 - 1368), to the beginning of the 15th century, this dish became famous, the kings and Ming diners are dishes that people proud to own brand when. refer to the capital of Beijing.

This is a healthy diet, because ducks are fed with natural food and scientific processing. The characteristic of duck roasted duck skin is thin, crispy, dark yellow. Big Peking Duck was filmed in a large fire at the restaurant, where meat and skin were served to the guests, while the remaining bones were stewed to make a delicious soup.

Beijing mentioned in Katie Melua's Katie Melua song "Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing" quietly and loudly in a cafe or restaurant, may remind you of many memories. Pictures of a crowded city with traffic jam, wet alleys, old gray-haired bikers, bicycles for sale, or famous landmarks like Tiananmen Square or Forbidden City ... will burn. mark the memory of those who have come to this city.

It is rumored that in order to have good ducks for this fine dish, one has to feed ducks in a special way. The delicious duck to shoot must be a small, black feathered duck, which is in Nanjing in the fall when the rice is ripe. This is the time when duck meat will be the best, cereal to feed ducks should be selected only from certain areas. Duck is to be stocked in large ponds for about two months, then in the next 15-20 days to be fed 4 times a day under a special regime, resulting in ducklings A place that will give you a lot of things, which will include both the good food you eat and the stories around that dish. This is probably the most famous Peking duck, though now the duck pieces you eat may not be in Beijing but in Shanghai, Hong Kong or anywhere.

Steps to duck in accordance with Beijing standards are also sophisticated, complicated, many steps and only good cooks to understand what they are doing. For example, inflating the duck's neck to separate the dermal layer from the fat layer. The duck is dipped in boiling water, then hung up on the rack until the duck is dry. A special sauce of white vinegar, malt ... will be repeatedly scraped to create layers of duck and meat inside are also marinated separate spices such as: red vinegar, sugar, salt, five Incense duck after being marinated will be left there for a day and night, then go to spin until the skin duck brownish red characteristic.

Previously, the duck rotary kiln had to be built of brick and burned with wood of peach or peach. Now the rotary kilns have been improved over time. Chef with a sense of professional experience is always know exactly when a batch of about 20 ducks ready to be put on the spin and how to make delicious, standard. The finished product is rotten reddish brown, crispy skin, soft and sweet meat.

Chinese restaurants in Saigon often serve Peking duck in 2 or 3 dishes. Duck skin is used as appetizer, they will be cut pieces, rolled with scallion, cucumber, wrapped outside with soft coated cake. Sweet duck meat, fried with rice, fried with noodles or fried flour. The duck bone is usually cooked into soup, also sweet and fragrant no less. But there are sophisticated cooks who offer a delectable 5-course duck, duck duck, duck duck, fried duck, soup ... all from a roast duck. It does not bode well. Because of those 5 flavors, there are different flavors and flavors.

Those who love this dish often joke that in the Qianlong period, it is said that this duck is only for the aristocracy, kings and people are eating duck while listening to poetry. Today, it may not need poetry, a delicious duck dish also makes people wake up the feeling of enjoying this life completely.

The Peking Duck is no longer a local dish; it has even been considered to be the national dish of China. But while there are debates about that, there are thousands of ducks in the world every day, so millions can taste the deliciousness of a dish a hundred years.

You can be anywhere in the world, in the United States, in Thailand when enjoying this dish, knowing it, you have had the experience as if you yourself have come or come back to this place. That's what delicious food can do: take you through this world with delicious feelings every time you enjoy the original flavor of a dish.

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79 Yonghegong St, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100007

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