Good to know, so it seems it was just a London thing to offer crispy aromatic duck instead of Peking duck until fairly recently. Still seems odd that Cantonese restaurants have been offering Peking duck but not other either Beijing or Zhejiang dishes (depending on whether you think the dish is from one of those areas).

My first ever Chinese meal was actually in SF Chinatown in the 1980s when I was 10 years old...strange to believe that I had never had Chinese food (as far as I can recall, and certainly not in a restaurant) before then. My uncle ordered a bunch of dishes, but the only one I can clearly remember was shark fin soup (I was a boy, and eating shark!!). I was a fan of the dish until my 20s when I wised up and stopped ordering.

tb