So good I want to do it again

[figmo]

[Sounds like the subject of a SPAM message, doesn't it?]

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!!!

Comments

[mneme]

Note that there's a lot of variation in Peking Duck (hell, there's a lot of variation in what -pancakes- a peking duck comes with).

And a crucial part of peking duck is that the skin (while universally included, as far as I know) isn't really connected to the meat, I suppose this may be a fairly extreme example of same.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

The skin is an integral part of Peking Duck. This dish had no duck skin.

The reason the skin doesn't stick to the duck is you have to inflate the duck the way you would a balloon. This separates the two. You then have to have the duck hang while inflated to keep the two separated so the skin gets crispy.

As I said, Mom used to make this. Part of my childhood involved not knicking over the upright duck in the refrigerator.