Tried Duck de Chine this weekend with some out of town guests. Tucked away behind the Pacific Park Century in the Hidden Complex, DDC ranks as one of the best, and possibly most expensive ducks in Beijing. As soon as you enter the impressive front door, you are lured by the sweet smell of roasting wood--you really know they are making duck the right way (shame on all you electric oven duck restaurants!). We ordered a whole duck, duck tacos, eggplant, spinach and fried rice. The first thing they bring to the table is fixings for the sauce. Everyone has an individual bowl for plum sauce, but then the servers drizzled sesame and peanut sauce, swirled the bowl to create a beautiful kaleidoscope of color and topped it with roasted garlic. It is very impressive. The duck was very good and crowned with the best duck skin I've ever had. The duck tacos were interesting...served with plum sauce, chopped iceberg and crispy mini shells and the duck filling was diced and tossed with some scallions, mushrooms and peppers. I was tasty, but not something I'd need to order again. The rest of the meal was good, but wouldn't strike me as memorable. Including a 350RMB bottle of wine, the meal came out to 950RMB. I'm glad to have the experience, but I think there are better quality and value ducks to be had in Beijing.
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