Beijing Roast Duck is a world-famous Beijing dish, which originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. Roast duck, a famous court dish at that time, was recorded in the Food Collection. The raw material is high-quality meat-eating duck, which is roasted with fruit wood and charcoal fire, with rosy color, fat but not greasy meat, crisp outside and tender inside. Beijing roast duck is divided into two factions, and the most famous roast duck restaurant in Beijing is the representative of the two factions. Because of its red color, tender meat, mellow taste, fat but not greasy, it is known as "delicious in the world"
In the early Ming Dynasty, the people loved Nanjing salted duck, and so did the emperor. It is said that the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang "ate a roast duck during the solar eclipse". In order to please the long live grandfather, the royal chefs in the court tried their best to develop new ways to eat duck gizzards, so they also developed barbecued roast duck and braised roast duck.
How to eat Beijing roast duck
The first way to eat Beijing roast duck: It is said that it was initiated by ladies and gentlemen in Dazhaimen. They don't eat onions or garlic, but they like to dip crispy duck skin in fine sugar. From then on, the waiter in Quanjude saw the female guests coming, and it was inevitable to follow the roast duck and serve a small dish of sugar.
The second way to eat Beijing roast duck: add onion strips to the sweet noodle sauce, which can be matched with cucumber strips and radish strips. Pick a little sweet noodle sauce with chopsticks, put it on the lotus leaf cake, put a few slices of roast duck, put some onion strips, cucumber strips or radish strips, and roll up the lotus leaf cake. It is really delicious.
The third way to eat Beijing roast duck: garlic sweet noodle sauce and radish strips. Eating duck with lotus leaf cake was also a popular seasoning in early years. Garlic paste can relieve greasy taste. The sliced roast duck is dipped in garlic paste and sweet noodle sauce, which adds a touch of spice to the fresh flavor and makes the flavor more unique. Many customers especially like this condiment.