Braised Duck in Peppery Soy Sauce

The sauce in this dish is similar to the southern Chinese pork dish called Mists of Harmony, which uses caramelized dark soy sauce and pepper. As duck is richer than pork, here the fattiness is cut with pepper and cloves. It does take time to cook, but is well worth the effort. If you have a pressure cooker, this will take about half the time and requires half the quantity of water. Use the thickest dark soy sauce you can find; the variety labelled sweet soy sauce (kecap manis in Indonesian