After a long day of exploring the French Concession in Shanghai, my dad and I decided to go to the restaurant known for its duck.  Even though Beijing is the place in China to have duck, the duck we had was astonishingly good, much better than any duck I’ve had in the US.  It was pretty different than the duck you get in the US, though: a chef comes to your table with an entire roasted duck on his platter; he then proceeds to cut the duck into various categories of duck meat.  One category is skin: he gives you a plate of the most rich skin I’ve ever had in my life.  A different category is lean meat, and the final category is fatty meat + skin.  The skin and fatty meat were so rich that we had to accompany them with little rice tortillas and plumb sauce, otherwise they were almost too rich.  The combination of plumb sauce, skin, and meat, though, was fantastic.

We were so excited to have our duck that we didn’t notice the chef leave with meat to spare.  After allowing us to eat for a few minutes, the waitress returned with a huge bowl of duck soup, which was also insanely good.  The duck, soup, sauce, tortillas, etc cost $20, easily feeding two hugry people.  Mmmmmm.

I didn’t have my camera at the time, so I suppose I’ll have to go back to take some pictures ;).