Peking Roasted Duck

Peking Roasted Duck is a famous Chinese dish with a world reputation. It was developed by the Chinese Ming dynasty; it’s a traditional food for the Han nationality. At that time Peking Roasted Duck  was a food for the palace.

The real Peking Roasted Duck used the rare breed of Peking duck. It is one of the most highest quality duck meats in the world today. It is said thousands of years before, Chinese emperor went on the hunting trip and they found this pure white duck variety. Then they kept this kind of duck like livestock. They bred improvements to it. Finally it became this good variety of Peking duck.

In the Ming dynasty, people loved to eat the dried salted duck，also the emperor loved it. It is said the famous emperor YuanZhang Zhu ate dried salted ducks everyday. The chefs in the palace were trying to develop new ways to please the emperor, and then they invented Roasted duck. Also, because of they used the specific Peking duck, so it was called Peking Roasted Duck.

Peking Roasted Duck has many different ways to be eaten. These are two of the most famous ways.

The first one was invented by the rich wives and the ladies. They don't eat green onions, and garlic, but they like eating crispy duck skin with white sugar. Since then, if there were lady guests the restaurants must serve a little plate of white sugar with the Peking Roasted Duck.  

The second way is people eat the duck with sweet bean sauce and green onions, cucumber, and carrot sticks. They use chopsticks to pick a little bit sweet bean sauce, and wipe it on the lotus leaf cake, then put a few slices of duck cover on it, then put on green onions, cucumber or carrot sticks. Finally they furl the pancakes. It is really delicious.

Peking Roasted Duck must be eaten in the right season, the wrong season will affects its taste. The best taste of it is in winter, spring and autumn. In summer, the weather is hot. Ducks are not meaty and it’s in a bad quality of meat, so summer is not a good season for Peking Roasted Duck.