Four years ago, two scrooges were wandering in Wangfujing and stopped outside Quanjude, the most famous Peking duck restaurant in China. As they didn't have much money, they could only take a photo of its grand exterior and packet a duck back from the supermarket. He has been nagging about missing out on China's national dish ever since. So the first thing we did in Beijing was none other than feast on roast duck! Since we were staying in Dongzhimen and we were starving, we walked into Huajiayiyuan and ordered a half duck (118 yuan in August 2012). Their roast duck is served with a new twist. Other than the conventional spring onion and cucumber sticks, shredded lettuce and fruit sticks such as pineapple, cantaloupe, hawthorn, etc are included too. Wrap everything together with the special wasabi-mustard sauce and you taste an explosion of flavours. Awesome!