Beijing's roast duck is eaten differently from Guangdong, Shanghai and Yunnan. In those places, the ducks were roasted, cut into pieces and served on the table. Among them, Yunnan roast duck is roasted by local native ducks, which is fragrant and crisp, with seasonings such as onion, salt and pepper. It is said that the growth period of local ducks is long, and it is better to feed them with natural feed than to force them to eat the Peking Duck tunnel, which makes them grow fast. However, the lack of local duck oil is quite different from Beijing roast duck. Roast duck in other places is eaten as a dish, and it should not be fattened; And Beijing roast duck is for dinner, so it must be tender; To be fat but not greasy, besides the baking temperature is just right, the ingredients when eating are very particular. The noodle sauce is made by Quanjude himself, and it is not purchased in the market casually; Onion is not a southern onion, but a white stalk of a northern onion, which is cut into uniform slender strips.
Foreigners who have never eaten roast duck, at this time all stopped and watched the host perform. He took a piece of bread, put it in the palm of his hand, put a piece or two of duck meat in chopsticks, dipped it in flour sauce and put it in the cake; A few onions, wrapped in thin cucumber strips, bite at the entrance: just a piece of duck, the skin is crispy, the skin is fat and soft, and the lean meat is fresh and waxy. Even if the oil is squeezed out, let the cake be wrapped in fresh noodles and sucked, let the salty sweetness of the noodle sauce be accompanied, and let the spicy of the green onion compare with the cool crispness of the melon strips; That kind of taste, people who haven't eaten it can't imagine, and those who have eaten it must still want to eat it.
Outsiders are scrambling to learn, and there are always several people who have flour paste leaking from the cake and sticking their hands. So the host explained the essentials: when wrapping the cake, cover the bottom first, then close the sides and show it on your head, just like a baby's candle bag. Do you think the child will fall out? So the mountain of duck meat in the dish was quickly flattened, and several saucers with flour sauce showed the bottom of white porcelain, and the diners scraped hard with a piece of duck meat. And my stomach is almost full, and my mouth is a little thirsty. Just then, the waiter brought a pot of duck rack soup in a white porcelain basin. Divide it into everyone's small bowl, and the milky fresh soup will slip down. Someone did not consider using a spoon, picked up the bowl and drank it off, then went to the big basin by himself.
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Quanjude is in Beijing and has opened many semicolons. The most authentic, at the front door, I have never been there. I went to Xidan in the early years, which was a bad memory. I went in with my friends and finally found an empty table to sit down. A lady dressed neatly came with a menu. We looked at the price list and ordered half a roast duck. All the cakes and sauces are matched, and we thought this would be enough; Seeing that the young lady meant too little, she ordered another fried duck gizzard. Miss is still not satisfied. What is written on her face means that we have occupied this table for nothing. The final settlement is exactly right 100. I have long forgotten what that roast duck tasted like. I remember that there was a lot of duck gizzard, but it was oily and burnt. We tried our best but didn't finish it. Since then, I have never been to that Quanjude.
Fortunately, Zhongguancun has opened a Quanjude chain store, which has become a place where I often treat people. The place is upstairs in the Long March Restaurant. It's not cheap to eat roast duck. Four or five people, a duck, a few dishes, and a few bundles of beer, it's 200 yuan up anyway. Although guests can generally be reimbursed by the public, in Zhongguancun, business costs are calculated. If you find a Sichuan restaurant, 200 yuan can be eaten without it. Quanjude was chosen because Sichuan cuisine can be eaten all over the country, while authentic Beijing roast duck can only be eaten here. The average shop assistant is from old Beijing, and his attitude is neither supercilious nor supercilious. It's okay to engage in diplomacy as a big country with this attitude, but it's inevitable to attract the dissatisfaction of picky customers when doing service, and you can often see quarrels. In all fairness, as far as service attitude is concerned, Quanjude is good in Beijing time-honored brands; Quanjudeli and Zhongguancun are good.
Zhongguancun Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant is opposite the south wall of Peking University, and you can often see foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes coming to taste roast duck. In recent years, the number of Koreans has increased. Originally, Koreans are not much worse than China people, but Koreans are short and slightly nervous. Eating is like having a review meeting. When you talk, it is easier to distinguish them. Located in the key area of Zhongguancun electronic business circle, compared with other restaurants, there seem to be fewer businessmen eating in Quanjude, so the store is relatively quiet. If you come late, there will be no seat for you. The waiter will ask you to wait in the aisle for a while. After two o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock in the evening, the roast duck restaurant is ready to close and rest, and it will not be received, which makes Cantonese people stunned from ear to ear.
However, in the past two years, Zhongguancun Quanjude has become more and more operational, which is also obvious. For example, there was a lottery the year before last and a coupon last year. Once, when we were about to finish eating, a waitress in her forties asked for a fruit bowl, saying it was a gift from the restaurant. Unfortunately, I was not nearsighted, otherwise I would be surprised.
The Long March Restaurant downstairs used to be called the Long March Canteen. There is also a "one hole in the sky" hotel underground, and the grade is even higher. These two companies also deal in roast duck, but they are not the main business, and their business will be worse. Customers can't find seats in Quanjude, and sometimes they run into these two houses. The waiter will tell the customers that the roast duck here is also baked by Quanjude's master, so as to dispel their doubts.
Once, several guests from Yichang wanted to buy our products. I propose that we go to dinner first and talk over dinner. The guest said, let's talk about it first, or we'll forgive you for not doing it. I have always respected such guests and put public affairs in the main position, but it is not unkind. After talking for nearly two hours, we decided on the technical details and the price. The impatient guests asked us to go to Yichang with them at once. It is also rare that the director who came here has just finished surgery and is still wearing a lumbar support and doing things desperately. When we came to Quanjude, we were turned away. We went to Dongtian and Changzheng Restaurant in turn, and they all closed their doors. Finally, we went to the opposite Sichuan restaurant. There, as long as there are guests, it will never close, because the store rent on the south wall of Peking University is too high. Another feature is that the young lady miscalculates money from time to time. Of course, she never miscalculates.
Other restaurants selling roast ducks in Zhongguancun are also dotted around, and the price is much cheaper, only 40 yuan each. If you only have 20 yuan and want to eat roast duck, you can go to Yibin Building, where there is a roast duck set meal. However, the duck is definitely roasted in advance and placed in an incubator, which is not the same as Quanjude. You can't do this unless you have to.