I love Beijing / Peking duck. There are 3 main restaurants most well known for this, and since this was one of the rare times I was in town, a good friend decided to splurge and take me to dinner at the classy (and more expensive) Duck de Chine.
The restaurant located in a small complex that they call 1949 - The Hidden City. Its an old traditional Chinese house broken up into different restaurants and clubs. It well deserves its name, considering what a difficult time my taxi driver had finding it. He had to call the restaurant twice for directions, before dropping me in a dodgy deserted carpark and pointing me vaguely in the direction of the back door!
The restaurant located in a small complex that they call 1949 - The Hidden City. Its an old traditional Chinese house broken up into different restaurants and clubs. It well deserves its name, considering what a difficult time my taxi driver had finding it. He had to call the restaurant twice for directions, before dropping me in a dodgy deserted carpark and pointing me vaguely in the direction of the back door!
All that was forgiven when the food came though. The Peking duck arrived whole and was swiftly carved up into thin crisps little slices. It's self wrap here, either in the thin popiah skins, or in the special biscuit for a little extra cost.
Hot soup is always delicious in sub-zero temperatures. Even if its just the basic simple "dun4 tang1" (soup of the day).
I liked the lamb quite a lot, it was soft and tender and cooked in a nice mix of garlic and onion. Unfortunately it got cold really fast.
In order to be "healthy", we also got some beancurd. I don't remember much about this dish except that there wasn't a bad dish at Duck de Chine!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Duck de Chine
Gong Ti Bei Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100027
Tel: +86 10 6501 8881
http://www.elite-concepts.com/Promotions/1949/DuckDeChine.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment