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According to my taste buds, the Peking Duck at Eastern City (東城軒) is very good when compared with other Chinese restaurants in Ottawa. (After I tried the Peking Duck at Beijing Tian Run, I was quite disappointed since many people told me that their Peking Duck is the best in town. I really don't think so.)

We tried the 2-course meal Peking Duck: first course was served with the crispy skin and steamed flour pancakes, green onions and sweet hoisin sauce. You place pieces of duck skin on a pancake, adds a bit of hoisin sauce, and onion. The mixture is rolled up and eaten.

The remaining duck meat is usually chopped up, stir-fried, and eaten wrapped in fresh lettuce.

Note: If you go for the traditional 3-course meal Peking Duck, the third dish is the duck soup cooked from the bone. However, if you go for the 2-course meal and you know the owner or server well, they may give you the remaining bone to take home so that you make broth at home yourself.

I finally tried their Peking Duck. To my knowledge, making Peking Duck (or any BBQ duck/pork/geese) requires a proper stove and many Chinese restaurants do not have those stoves in their kitchens. I remember I heard about the staff at the BBQ counter at Kowloon Market Kowloon Market talked about the BBQ order from Yangtze Yangtze. So, I believe that if you order BBQ pork/duck from most of the Chinese restaurants, they must be either from Kowloon Market or Double Happiness.

Anyway, Brother Wu doesn't have the stove to make Peking Duck either. However, the chef made their Peking Duck in-house. Their version is to make the duck skin crispy by deep-frying (I have tried this type of Peking Duck in a Chinese restaurant in Toronto). The taste wasn't bad at all. The skin was very cripsy.

If you want to order Peking Duck from Brother Wu, make sure you call them one day in advance and tell them you are going to order Peking Duck. (Also, if you want to order Lobster, make sure to call them one day in advance.)