I’m actually in Malaysia / Singapore right now as you read this. Back here in this region to visit my parents and my relatives. Mainly because after this trip, I have no idea when I’ll be able to visit my parents again. I’ll be blogging about the foods here shortly, but there’s still a pile of backlog of Melbourne posts to go through first. I’ll also continue posting as usual, so you don’t have to worry about waking up one day and not seeing a new post from me!
You see that photo there? That’s a whole duck. One whole fat duck that was brought out to our table during the bloggers night out at Old Kingdom. You know what that means? It means it’s peking duck night. Oh hallelujah.
Organized by the fabulous @eatnik who managed to gather 26 of foodies for a night of pinot and peking duck. We ordered nothing but peking duck. So that came up to 13 ducks. That’s a whole lot of duck.
I have to say, the duck skins here are interesting. They came sliced with meat. While I enjoyed the texture of the meat with the skin, it was also sticking out like a sore thumb in the “not authentic” section of my head.
I gave up trying to make sure my rolls were pretty. Threw being a perfectionist to the wind and concentrated on being a foodie. @cloudcontrol’s brilliant idea of asking for chopped chilli gave the peking duck skin rolls that extra kick. A much needed kick given that it was a cold night. Of course, wine does help with that too.
And when you have 26 hungry diners craving peking duck, it doesn’t take long to go from this:
to this:
It’s gone, it’s gone!
There is something amazing about having plates upon plates upon plates of peking duck skin delivered to your table. And there is also something to be said about watching so many people gathering together to enjoy the pure goodness of peking duck. Amazing, that’s what it is.
Noodles and soup followed but to be honest, they were kinda not very exciting. The exciting part of the evening were the peking duck skins. They were definitely nice, but not amazingly nice. I’d go back again tho. At that price ($30 per person I think it was), would I go back? Hell yeah.
Thanks to @eatnik for this amazing #duckfest! I know that #duckfest2 is happening soon, and I’m gutted that I won’t be there for QuanJude, but I guess there will be #duckfest3 to look forward to!
Hope all is well in Melbourne land, and I cannot wait to show you what I got today. Here’s a clue : heaps and heaps of cookbooks!
Old Kingdom
197 Smith St
Fitzroy, 3065
Tel: 9417 2438
oh my – while I am not the hugest fan of duck, Mr BBB is and would have loved this place!!!
.-= Lisa (bakebikeblog)´s last blog ..Pancake party =-.
There’s quite a few different places in Melbourne that do peking duck fairly decently!
It was amazing to watch the food just … disappear! Though I’ve had better duck, the pancakes were some of the best I’ve eaten. And the company was amazing, although putting the said chilli oil on to a compost cookie before eating…well I guess I’ve come to expect that sort of thing when out with “the gang”. Such a lovely lot of camaraderie too. It’s more than just the food isn’t it?
Most definitely. I think the food tasted so good that day was also because of the incredibly enjoyable company. I didn’t get to try the compost cookie but I’m sure these things will pop up again. Chilli oil on the cookie? Gotta be this gang. I can’t wait for the next group eat out!
Wow, I love pecking duck myself, i havent been to this place, so looks like i will have to give it a try sometime soon. i love your blogs they are very interesting.
Just call me the ‘Duck Enabler’
Aw hun, we couldn’t do without you ;p