Peking duck

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See also: Pekin duck

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Etymology

Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking +‎ duck.

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Noun

Peking duck (uncountable)

  1. A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
    • 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:
      During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.
    • 2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 May 2022, China:
      As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck. [] "Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peking duck.

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