Name: Roast Duck (燒鴨)
Yield: Serves 6–8
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons maltose (swapsies: thick honey); 2 star anise; 1 whole duck; 2 spring onions (scallions); 1 thumb-size piece of ginger; 50 ml (2 fl oz) Shaoxing rice wine; 1 small cinnamon stick; 10 fennel seeds; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; ½ teaspoon dark soy sauce; 2 tablespoons hot water; 1 teaspoon salt; 3 tablespoons red rice vinegar (swapsies: red wine vinegar); 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hong Kong Diner

By Jeremy Pang

Published 2017

About

Like most blokes, my attention span when it comes to shopping is incredibly short-lived. In fact Window-Shopping is pretty much as far as it goes for me, unless I know exactly what it is I want to buy. In Hong Kong, however, window-shopping is a completely different experience. While for some it’s handbags a-plenty, for others like myself it’s a feast for the eyes (and soon afterwards the belly), with roasted and cured meats hanging in just about every third storefront window. Now that’s my