Beijing Duck

Beijing Duck (known as Peking Duck to many of you) is one of the best dishes I have eaten. Don't visit Beijing without trying it. We had lunch at Quanjude, the oldest Beijing Duck restaurants. They give you a card with the serial number of your duck. Ours was 399,565. And I didn't even know that ducks had serial numbers. OK, so it is the number of ducks that the restaurant has served since 1864.


Lots of food in China is cheap. Beijing Duck, at one of these well-known restaurants is not. Lunch for three was 795 yuan (about $116). Like any city in the world, if you go to the famous restaurant in the middle of the five-star hotels you will pay New York prices. A couple blocks away we could have a good lunch for $1.50 each.

The restaurant is located on one of the major international shopping streets in Beijing--Wangfujing. All the internationa brands have shops here, and the prices are about 20% higher than in the US.