When Yang Gang arrived in Beijing, he bought and sold raw chickens and ducks in the meat market street outside Qianmen. Yang carefully studied the method of selling ducks, and his business became more and more prosperous. He scrimps and saves on weekdays, and his accumulated money snowballs. Every day when Yang goes to the meat market to set up a stall to sell chickens and ducks, he passes by a dried fruit shop called "Dejuquan". Although the signboard of this store is eye-catching, the business is declining. Tongzhi for three years (1864), the business closed down and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Smart Yang seized this opportunity and took out his savings for many years to buy the "Dejuquan" store.

Then he invited Qian Zilong, an accomplished scholar in calligraphy, to write the three Chinese characters "Quanjude" and made a gold plaque to hang on the lintel.

Quanjude invited Master Sun, which is equivalent to mastering all the techniques of hanging roast duck in Qing Palace. Master Sun changed the original oven into a hanging oven. The oven is high and the stove is wide. One oven can roast more than a dozen ducks. You can also roast duck facing inward. The duck he roasted is beautiful in appearance, rich and full, bright in color and purplish red, crispy in skin and tender in meat, fragrant and crisp, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, and has won the reputation of "delicious in Beijing, better than a duck" for Quanjude roast duck.

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"Quanjude" is not only famous for roast duck at home and abroad, but also a series of fine dishes represented by whole duck seats, special dishes, innovative dishes and celebrity banquets have formed Quanjude's cuisine culture.

In the hands of chef Quanjude, the whole duck became a treasure. While making roast duck, chefs of past dynasties have carefully prepared various delicious hot and cold dishes with raw materials such as duck ribs, duck feet, duck hearts, duck livers and duck gizzards. After years of accumulation, a "Quanjude whole duck mat" represented by mustard duck feet, flaming duck hearts, four treasures of stewed duck, duck tongue with hibiscus flowers and duck wrapped in shark fins has been formed.

Interestingly, on one occasion, Vice President Wang Guangying said at a dinner party in Quanjude: "All duck ingredients are available in the whole duck mat except one dish." Everyone doesn't know what it is. He smiled and said, "It's duck eggs!" Everyone suddenly realized. After careful study, a new dish-"Crystal Duck Treasure" was added to the menu of Quanjude, which filled the blank of "whole duck mat".

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