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Roast Duck Boston China Town
Peking Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing[1] that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China’s national foods.
The dish is prized for the thin, crisp skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is eaten with pancakes, scallion, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce. The two most notable restaurants in Beijing which serve this delicacy are Quanjude and Bianyifang, two centuries-old establishments which have become household names.
Fattened ducks are slaughtered, plucked, eviscerated and rinsed thoroughly with water.[10] Air is pumped under the skin through the neck cavity to separate the skin from the fat.[19] The duck is then soaked in boiling water for a short while before it is hung up to dry.[20] While it is hung, the duck is glazed with a layer of maltose syrup, and the inside is rinsed once more with water. Having been left to stand for 24 hours,[21] the duck is roasted in an oven until it turns shiny brown.[22]
Peking Duck is traditionally roasted in either a closed oven or hung oven. The closed oven is built of brick and fitted with metal griddles (Chinese: 箅子; pinyin: bì zi). The oven is preheated by burning Gaoliang sorghum straw (Chinese: 秫秸; pinyin: shú jiē) at the base. The duck is placed in the oven immediately after the fire burns out, allowing the meat to be slowly cooked through the convection of heat within the oven.[10]
The hung oven was developed in the imperial kitchens during the Qing Dynasty and adopted by the Quanjude restaurant chain. It is designed to roast up to 20 ducks at the same time with an open fire fueled by hardwood from peach or pear trees.[10][21] The ducks are hung on hooks above the fire and roasted at a temperature of 270 °C (525 °F) for 30–40 minutes. While the ducks are cooking, the chef may use a pole to dangle each duck closer to the fire for 30 second intervals.[21] Almost every part of a duck can be cooked. The Quanjude Restaurant even served their customers the “All Duck Banquet” in which they cooked the bones of ducks with vegetables.
Besides the traditional methods to prepare Peking Duck, recipes have been compiled by chefs around the world to produce the dish at home
Chinatown, Boston is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only historically Chinese area in New England.
Modern day
Chinatown remains a center of Asian-American life in New England, hosting many Chinese, and Vietnamese restaurants and markets. Chinatown is one of Boston’s most densely-populated residential districts, with over 28,000 people per square mile in the year 2000. Nearly 70% of Chinatown’s population is Asian, compared with Boston’s nine percentage of Asian Americans overall.[1][2] Chinatown has a median household income of $14,289.
The traditional Chinatown Gate (paifang) with a foo lion on each side is located at the intersection of Beach Street and Surface Road. Once a run-down area housing little more than a ventilation-fan building for the Central Artery Tunnel, a garden was constructed at this site as part of the Big Dig project. The Gate is visible from the South Station Bus Terminal and is a popular tourist destination and photo opportunity.[citation needed]
The World Journal Chinese Daily Newspaper World Journal Boston is the largest and most read daily newspaper by the Chinese community. The non-profit community newspaper Sampan, is published twice a month and provides English-language news and information about Chinatown.
As of 2000 the Chinatown is also a red light district. It is located at the mouth of an expressway tunnel.[3]
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Chinatown has several local and regional transportation connections. It is served by the MBTA’s Red Line, Silver Line and Commuter Rail at South Station, and the Orange Line at Chinatown Station. Interstate 93 and the Massachusetts Turnpike are also in close proximity. Two Chinese-owned bus services (Fung Wah and Lucky Star/Travelpack) provide hourly connections with New York’s Chinatown.
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