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[Rusty Shackleford]

Are there any other lovers of BBQ Duck out there?

There are two restaurants in my po-dunk neighborhood that serve top notch duck. We have duck for Africa back home but you have to shoot it yourself, and to be frank, wild duck tastes like a ferryman's jerkin.

I've been eating it at least twice a week lately. E-mart has it pre-cooked and packaged as well.

My favorite way to eat it is with salsa and jalape�os. Any one else on the duck band wagon?

[Bloopity Bloop]

My favorite preparation of duck is a toss-up between hung-up-in-the-window, greasy over rice HK-style and Peking duck with some good bao.

[createasaurus21]

Hell yes, I love Duck. Especially here in Korea. I've gone to both the bbq rotisserie skewer style places and the smoked duck places. Both are very good. E-Mart's cooked food section also sells some good duck. I haven't found a Hong Kong (Peking?) style duck place though.

[Chris_Dixon]

Peking duck is amazing-sauce and those little like burrito things that you wrap it in mmmmmmmm, ive been meaning to try duck here but never get around to it...i also heard its abit expensive...

[Rusty Shackleford]

[yingwenlaoshi]

I've never tried the BBQ duck. I might do that soon.

[curiousaboutkorea]

MY bbq duck experience was not so great. They used one of the wire grills like they do for galbi. When in fact tehy should be using one of the conical ones with holes cut in it, like for samgyeopsal. The duck has so much fat that quite a bit renders out, causing fire, resulting in soot on the meat.

Then again, what difference does it make? It's gonna get smothered in ssamjang, garlic, onions and whatever else and wrapped in a leaf. Whoopie.

[Draz]

BBQ duck was my first real meal in Korea. It was amazing. I would love to have it again, but I never have.

[Fishead soup]

There's five kinds of duck I've had in Korea.

The standard( Samgyup sal style) This is good but I'd rather have real Samgyup sal with pork.

Same as above but with Gochujang(dok Kalbi style). This is awesome.
Great with soju.

Smoked and placed inside a pumkin- Awesome

In a soup with Ginseng and wood- Thumbs down. I don't like wood in my food I'm not a beaver

Roast with rice and chessnuts inside- The Best.

[Bloopity Bloop]

[santafly]

I went to an expensive Peking Duck place in Apkujeong - it was terrible and only reinforced my K-girlfriends belief that Chinese food is garbage.

She took me to a duck BBQ place - with the griddle at an angle over a gas burner so the fat pours off one end. They had those giant sliced mushrooms positioned near the bottom so they absorbed the duck fat - super mashisa.

[Bloopity Bloop]

[Fox]

I appreciate fine duck meat. In Korea, my prefered method is 삼겹살 style over the grill, but the best duck I ever had was in my home town in the States. You had to order it a day in advance, and they brought it to you in three phases. The first was the skin, crisped nicely, with plum sauce and pancakes to wrap it in. The second phase was duck soup with mushrooms. The third phase was the bulk of the duck's meat, cooked in a lightly flavored sauce and, again, with pancakes to wrap it in.

I'm also a big fan of duck being stuffed with small pieces of french bread and cooked in the oven. Simple, but delicious, and the bread soaks up most of the grease.

I'm surprised ducks haven't been driven to extinction given how delicious they are. Your post inspired me, I think my lady and I will dine on duck tonight.

[Rusty Shackleford]

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