A Peking duck dinner is a feast built from a single ingredient. It starts with nibbling on a taco-like snack of the delicately crisp skin tucked inside thin mandarin pancakes with a lick of earthy ...
Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Even mid-pandemic, there are still a dozen restaurants in Chinatown ...
The iconic roast ducks hanging the windows of Chinese restaurants once sparked a controversy in California, where legislators chose to accommodate an ethnic minority despite public health concerns. In ...
When the gong sounds, almost every diner at Beijing restaurant Duck de Chine turns around. That’s because one of the city’s greatest culinary shows is about to begin – the slicing of a Peking duck.
For the last 30 years the Peking Acrobats® have redefined audiences’ perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. Accompanied by live ...
People often ask me where to find the best Peking duck. It’s a question that comes up year-round, but more frequently during the holidays. And especially around now, with Lunar New Year celebrations ...
In November, my friend Michelle, whom I hadn’t heard from in a while, sent me a lengthy text about a Peking duck restaurant in Humble: “I hope you don’t mind this suggestion,” she wrote, “because we ...
On a cold January evening in 1937, the 19-year-old adopted daughter of a former British diplomat in China left her friends, got on her bike and rode to her death. Her murder sent shockwaves through ...
Last November, I read a long New York Times piece about the return of the Peking to its country of origin, Germany. The square-rigged sailing ship at South Street Seaport was slated to leave sometime ...