Peking Duck

Essential to your Beijing dining experience is a brief tour of the many establishments offering Peking roast duck (Beijing kaoya), a delicious, lightly smoked, rich meal complimented by pancakes, dipping sauce, vegetable filling and irresistible slivers of juicy meat, fat and crispy skin. Said to originate in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Peking roast duck was first served in a Beijing restaurant in 1855. The original recipe includes a description of how to build and fire an oven for smoking the bird.

The Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant leads the popular duck front, and you'll find many of them in Beijing. The Bianyifang Restaurant offers another way of roasting duck that is also delicious.

A taste of Peking roast duck is every bit as important as a visit to Tian誥nmen Square during your stay in Beijing.

 

Bianyifang Roast Duck Restaurant

2A Chongwenmenwai Dajie, Chongwen District

+86 10 6712 0505

 

Dadong Peking Duck

Traditional Peking roast duck. Convenient location near Sanlitun

Building 3, Tuanjiehu Beikou, Chaoyang District

+86 10 6582 4003

 

Duck King

Slightly different from the rest, instead of the flat pancakes you can order griddle cakes in which to put your duck.

24 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District

+86 10 6515 6908

 

Liqun Restaurant

11 Beixiangfeng Hutong (south end of Zhengyi Lu), Qianmen Dongdajie

+86 10 6702 5681

 

Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

The best traditional Peking roast duck in town!

32 Qianmen Dajie, Chongwen District

+86 10 6511 2418