5 MARCH TONIGHT 我家老太婆 WANTS A BIT OF CHINESE as she is more Chinese than Western .... she prefers rice to noodle, steak or chips; she wants something more filling. She is like that, very kampung, traditional, China woman. She doesn't like Middle Eastern, Indian, Italian, either. She doen't mind them but she will not crave for them. She cannot rough it out, her roughing out days are long over. That is ok. That is my 老太婆.
So to make my 老太婆 happy tonight we go for BJ Duck. And in keeping with her wishes we will have rice, and not noodle.
She has had Simon's Peiking Duck (192b Middlesbourough Rd Box Hill) once before and she does not mind having it again. The Chinese name for the restaurant is 英雅阁 and does not relate or rhime with Simon's Peiking Duck.
It's "Peiking Duck" and not Peking Duck, as pronounced by Simon the boss. I am not sure if it was an error made by Simon but Peiking Duck it is.
For $55 we get a whole BJ Duck ( I doubt it), and 2 dishes i.e. duck meat stir fried with bean shoots, and duck/tofu/salted cabbage soup. The usual arrangement. We cannot help but compare the meal with the extraordinary one we had in BJ back in June last year in the hutong. The duck meat, however, is chunky and the duck skin crispy and glistering with duck fat. They look inviting to eat. The owner of the restaurant doe not 偷鸡 and supply the 真料。
The duck is eaten with spring onion, cucumber, hoi sin sauce; all wrapped in Chinese pancake. Again nothing surprising. What is surprising is how thick and huge the duck meat (skin on) is. Value for money I guess.
The bean shoot dish is tasty and goes well with rice or yellow noodle.
The soup is .... a soup. Nothing outstanding. We are a bit wasteful, we each have 1/2 a bowl and that is it for us.
All in all it's a huge meal for 2, it will be all right to have the same meal for 3 adults.
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