Meanings
- alternativeuncommonuncountableAlternative form of Peking duck.
Beijing Duck This is made on the same principle as that other great delicacy, paté de foie gras, namely by force-feeding ducks.
2001, Caroline Liou, Robert Storey, Beijing, Lonely Planet, page 1323 more examples
The art of preparing Beijing Duck became popular in the 15th century, although the dish had existed much earlier as a delicacy for the aristocracy.
1985, Fredric M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Arne J. De Keijzer, The China Guidebook 1985, Houghton Mifflin, page 283Beijing duck is the capital's famous invention, now a production-line of sorts. Your meal starts at one of the agricultural communes around Beijing where the duck is pumped full of grain and soya bean paste to fatten it up[…]
1988, Alan Samagalski, Robert Strauss, Michael Buckley, China: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 501We were disappointed by the Beijing duck, which we tried in one of the restaurants best known for that dish. Every part of the duck was brought in at one time or another, and every part was too bland and fatty for our tastes.
1990, Roy Blount (Jr.), First Hubby, page 215
Origin
By substitution of Beijing, the Pinyin name of the city, in place of the earlier spelling Peking.
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