To celebrate our first day in Beijing, we ate Peking Duck or Beijing Duck as it is also called.  We went to the famous and elegant Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant.

One of the chefs carves the duck at your table — into exactly 90 thinly sliced pieces.  You are given bamboo baskets filled with thin pancakes (crepes) and small bowls of paper thin onion slices and special plum sauce.  On your small dinner plate, you unfold a pancake, fill it with duck slices, onion slices, and sauce and then roll it tortilla style. Yum!  You are also served the duck head with brains intact — a real delicacy and slices of hot duck skin.  (When in Rome….)

Remember, in China you don’t order just one thing.  We also ordered "fried pumpkin and cheese slices, bamboo and asparagus, spicy Szchuen beef,dates, and sticky rice cakes.