How popular a delicacy is Peking duck? Popular enough to warrant an 10,000 square-foot museum dedicated to it in China. It’s located in the downtown Beijing branch of the restaurant chain Quanjude, ...

On a warm summer day in 2025, I sat down for dinner with a British friend (His name is Duncan) at Shikumen , a Chinese restaurant nestled in Shepherd's Bush. While the establishment is renowned for ...

Roast duck is a favourite dish of thousands, but many save it for a special occasion. That occasion happens to be today, January 18, referred to as the National Peking Duck Day. The day is celebrated ...

Lunar will also serve a traditional dim sum, prepared by the chef who has been doing it for 20 years in China.

When the gong sounds, almost every diner at Beijing restaurant Duck de Chine turns around. That’s because one of the city’s greatest culinary shows is about to begin – the slicing of a Peking duck.

As a rule, this most local of Chinese delicacies is cooked and served up in this polyglot city by gentlemen from Fujian or Guangzhou, but rarely Beijing. But at the new restaurant Mainland, up on ...

Peking roast duck has the reputation of being the most delicious food in Beijing. It is usually a fixed item of dinner on any Beijingtour itinerary. Eating Beijing doast duck is also one of the two ...

It is axiomatic among some habitués of Chinese restaurants that the more cliché the ambience—the statuette of a pudgy Buddha, the bottles of plum wine on a shelf, the tattered New Year’s dragon ...

A Peking duck dinner is a feast built from a single ingredient. It starts with nibbling on a taco-like snack of the delicately crisp skin tucked inside thin mandarin pancakes with a lick of earthy ...