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Old Jan 22, 2023, 2:00 pm
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Originally Posted by moondog
There isn't anything Cantonese about Peking Duck, apart from the fact that it is popular in Cantonese-speaking areas. It doesn't seem to fit into any of the 8 standard categories either. I've heard it described as Chinese imperial cuisine, but I don't think that is a widely accepted term:
National Geographic attributes the origin of Peking Duck to Hangzhou; it then became a specialty of nearby Nanjing and arrived in Beijing sometime during the Ming dynasty.
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