The iconic roast ducks hanging the windows of Chinese restaurants once sparked a controversy in California, where legislators chose to accommodate an ethnic minority despite public health concerns. In ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Even mid-pandemic, there are still a dozen restaurants in Chinatown ...

You’ll never hear us say no to Peking duck. This gourmet classic wins us over every time with its thin, crispy glazed skin and juicy, tender meat. Plus, we like to show off our rolling skills with ...

When the gong sounds, almost every diner at Beijing restaurant Duck de Chine turns around. That’s because one of the city’s greatest culinary shows is about to begin – the slicing of a Peking duck.

In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. Although he signed a ...

Peking duck is my single favorite restaurant food. I've had it untold times in America, where it is occasionally superb, and less often in Beijing, where it became a restaurant dish some 600 years ago ...

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"Peking Man," a human ancestor who lived in China between roughly 200,000 and 750,000 years ago, was a wood-working, fire-using, spear-hafting hominid who, mysteriously, liked to drill holes into ...

In my first years in the U.S., my parents take me to the library to encourage my learning of English. With my mother’s guidance, I check out ten, fifteen books every weekend. Though I gravitate toward ...

Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So far, it has led to the discovery of the remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis, who lived in the Middle ...