So good I want to do it again

[figmo]

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When I was in England, I went to dinner with the_magician and Kathy and Leo Sands. The first dish we had brought to our table was some kind of shredded, skinless duck with side dishes of hoisin sauce, shredded green onions and cucumber strips, and steamed moo shu-style pancakes. It was delicious.

So...does anyone have any idea what this dish is called? Kathy said ladyat could smell it from a mile away and also adores it. I want to order it from somewhere, but I don't remember what it's called!!!

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[figmo.livejournal.com]

The dish was definitely not Peking Duck, as it didn't come with duck skin (something I think would make me gag right now). It just had the duck meat, shredded, and lots of it.

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[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Englishman's input here: I think this must be a local/national variation. I'm pretty sure we call the dish you had "Peking duck" or "crispy duck" interchangeably. Normally the skin is nowhere to be seen, unless they actually do the shredding in front of you (I've seen that done in less than 30 seconds once, it was amazing! =:o} ).

Note that even within England, chines restaurants will use wildly different terms for the same dishes, or have significantly different recipes for the same named dish. There's a pool of "Anglicised" variants that are common to most of the cheaper "take-aways", with ingredients probably all sourced from the same handful of bulk suppliers; and then there's the higher end of the market who have more "authentic" and/or creative variations on the dishes.

So maybe you need to ask specifically for "Peking Duck but without the duck skin".