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[GeorgiaXplant]

Beijing, is Peking Duck now called Beijing Duck? Inquiring minds want to know

 

[RadishRose]

Georgia, I had fun looking this up. Apparently yes, some do call it Beijing duck and there is no difference. I've never eaten this dish but now I really want to!

 

[GeorgiaXplant]

I'll be darned. Somehow Beijing Duck doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Peking Duck. But I'm not tempted to ever order it. We had chickens and ducks when I was a kid. I loved the Sunday chicken dinners but hated the holiday duck dinners. I remember duck as being all dark meat and greasy. It might have had something to do with my mother not being much of a cook. Poor thing couldn't even make Jell-O

 

[jujube]

Have you ever had a Turducken? It's a turkey, stuffed with a duck, which is stuffed with a chicken, which is stuffed with sausage. A friend served it once and she said it was hideously expensive. Tasted good. I do like duck.

 

[SifuPhil]

I would think, off-hand, that ordering a Peking duck in China would get you arrested. They're pretty strict there about any references to the past ...

And I agree with Georgia - never liked duck, too greasy and all dark meat.

 

[jujube]

We have a problem here in Orlando with Muscovy ducks. They aren't native to Florida and they tend to push the native ducks out of the environment. They're huge, they poop like a cow and they're...well...rude. Because they aren't native and are such a problem, they aren't protected. The local wildlife personnel wouldn't give anyone problems who made off with a Muscovy duck from a public park. In fact, one of them said a couple of years ago that they noticed that shortly after most of the Muscovy ducks would disappear from a particular park that there is a Peking duck special at a local Chinese restaurant the next day. I hope he was kidding. I'm pretty sure he wasn't.

 

[Warrigal]

When we visited Beijing we were taken to a restaurant that specialised in Peking Duck.

 

[imp]

Roast duck was often the staple at holidays in our house. Or roast goose. Maybe 3 to 4 times a year, mostly celebratory times, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, my Mother started out the day's roast meal about 6:00AM.

Duck is wonderful. I miss it, not having had it in years. If your big-name supermarket store has duck, take a look at the labels: virtually all of the frozen duck we've seen in recent years came from South Milford, Indiana! Curious! imp

 

[Butterfly]

I'm in the group that doesn't care for duck. It's just too greasy for me (my gut has a problem with really fatty foods) and I don't much care for the taste anyway. I guess it's a personal preference thing.