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The Peking Duck Ritual

A little ritual.
A perfect bite.

How to enjoy Peking duck, one simple gesture at a time.

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A thin duck pancake resting on a black ceramic plate.

Begin with the pancake.

Lay a warm, delicate pancake flat on your plate.

Dark duck sauce drizzling onto the centre of the pancake.

Just a little sauce.

Drizzle a little duck sauce through the centre. Leave the edges clear.

Crisp-skinned duck with cucumber and fine scallion threads on the pancake.

Crisp skin. Something fresh.

Add slices of duck, skin side up, then cucumber and fine threads of scallion.

A finished Peking duck roll with duck, cucumber and scallion visible at the open end.

Fold. Roll. Savour.

Fold the bottom edge in, roll gently from one side, and enjoy your first bite.

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How to eat
Peking duck.

01 · The pancake 饼

Lay the pancake flat.

02 · The sauce 酱

Drizzle the sauce.

03 · The duck 鸭

Lay in the duck, skin side up.

04 · Something fresh 葱

Add cucumber and scallion.

Five steps to your first bite

  1. Lay a warm pancake flat in the centre of your plate.
  2. Drizzle a little house hoisin sauce through the middle.
  3. Lay in two or three slices of Peking duck, skin side up.
  4. Add cucumber batons and fine threads of scallion.
  5. Fold the bottom edge up, roll from one side, and eat it in two bites.
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