Food again

We've done some experimenting in Beijing and although at times I haven't been 100% sure what I was eating, it's been good fun.

A Chinese chap we met in Borneo told us about a traditional restaurant that serves ancient royal recipes. He wrote the name and address of the restaurant in Chinese and the even though the people at our hostel had heard about it they weren't sure where it was. We showed a taxi driver and after a while searching she managed to get us there. I walked in and everyone looked at me as if I was the Health Inspector. They looked relieved when they realised we just wanted to eat and sat us at a table. The menu had some english translations but they really only were for entertainment value with names like Nestle duck most valuable. We started with Horseradish cooked in Soy and for my main I had the mutton speciality which was fantastic but I'm just not sure it was sheep.

I had to taste the famous 'Peking' duck that originated in Beijing and we chose a place called Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. It's one of the most famous places and I have to say it makes a mighty fine duck. Jacks wasn't too thrilled because even her prawn dumplings contained duck but we managed to get some veggies in the end. The restaurant makes 100 ducks a day, around 3000 a month and 36500 a year. Beijing has a lot of Roast Duck restaurants, I'll be conservative and say 100. So 100 X 36500 = 3,650,000. If our grandchildren never get the chance to see (or eat?) a duck we know who to blame.