Perhaps the best Peking duck restaurant in Beijing is Liqun Roast Duck Restarant.

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But the banana blossom salad more than makes up for any decorating shortfalls, that and its legendary roast duck.

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It tenderizes the meat and gives its multi tastes to stews, steak and oyster pie, stuffed pork and roast duck.

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Another well-known roast duck restaurant is Bianyifang, founded in 1855.

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The Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau can close down the Association on Music in Korean Dialect and the Beijing Association on Roast Duck Technology, but it is having trouble coercing Miss Zhang and her co-religionists.

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Besides beer supplied by a sole brewery, one of the six allowed to sell here (only breweries physically in Munich by law) each has a specialty food, ranging from roast duck to sausages to impressive whole oxen on spits, and each caters to a different demographic.

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And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.

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The cosy restaurant resembles an Alps chalet with wooden walls and tables, and stays true to its southeastern France namesake, serving red wine broth and raclette cheese fondue alongside Parma ham, duck, shrimp and roast potatoes.

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