Peking Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China's national foods.

A Peking Duck being roasted by a hung oven circa 1933.

The Peking Roast Duck that came to be associated with the term was fully developed during the later Ming Dynasty, and by then, Peking Duck was one of the main dishes on imperial court menus.

The meat has less fat and is drier and crispier compared to that of Peking Duck.

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* Pekin duck, which is the animal used for Peking Duck, and, which is also served as " Long Island duck " in the USA

* In Pictures: Making Peking Duck ( BBC )

Peking Duck, a kind of national food in China

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In 1999, Pnau officially released their debut album Sambanova under the independent label Peking Duck.

During the first season, a newspaper food critic ( played by Victor Buono ) dropped dead while eating Mel's chili, but it turned out that Peking Duck from a Chinese restaurant was to blame.

* Peking Duck ( 1979 ) ISBN 0-671-22880-3

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As well as housing the two original ( and the most authentic ) Peking Duck restaurants, Quanjude and Bianyifang.

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Similar to the better known hoisin sauce, sweet bean sauce is sometimes used in dishes such as Peking Duck and as a replacement for yellow soybean paste ( 黄酱 ; pinyin: huángjiàng ) in zhajiang mian ; in Beijing cuisine, yellow soybean paste is the traditional accompaniment for these two dishes.

It was even unofficially rumored the Chinese government had secretly consulted the head chef for the Peking Garden Restaurant of Hong Kong, part of the Maxim's restaurant and catering conglomerate, to teach chefs back at the renowned Quanjude restaurant in Beijing how to make good Peking Duck, Quanjude's signature dish, in the early 1980s as the skills to produce the dish were largely lost during the Cultural Revolution.

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Perhaps the most famous specimen of Homo erectus found in China is the so-called Peking Man discovered in 1923-27.

A famous example of Homo erectus is Peking Man ; others were found in Asia ( notably in Indonesia ), Africa, and Europe.

* 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (" Northern peace ").

* 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.

* China: the university is currently building a small campus for researchers and students in collaboration with Peking University.

It is believed his drinking problems began during his service in the military while stationed in China, when he would frequent the saloons of Tientsin and Peking.

Another large manufacturer is Peking Noodle in the Los Angeles area.

The Russian Empire and the Qing Empire had maintained a long peace, starting with the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, but Czarist forces took advantage of Chinese defeats to impose the Aigun Treaty of 1858 and the Treaty of Peking of 1860 which ceded territory in Manchuria much of which is held by Russia to the present day.

He was invited to give speeches at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University where he was warmly received, and this trip is claimed to have had significant impact on observers of the China-Taiwan strait relations issue.

Peking University (), colloquially known in Chinese as Beida ( 北大, Běidà ), is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League.

In addition to academics, Peking University is especially renowned for its campus grounds, and the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture.

Peking University is a national key university.

Along with its rival and neighbor the Peking University, it is known throughout China and the wider world for having one of the most beautiful campuses.

Better defined is the genetic separation among Neanderthals, Flores hobbit, Java man, and Peking man.

A well-known ornamental example is the weeping willow ( Salix × sepulcralis ), which is a hybrid of Peking willow ( Salix babylonica ) from China and white willow ( Salix alba ) from Europe.

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Ho is an honorary professor at Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Wuhan University, and Fudan University.

This is especially prominent in India: BOM for Mumbai ( formerly Bombay ), CCU for Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ), and MAA for Chennai ( formerly Madras ); in China: CAN for Guangzhou ( formerly Canton ), PEK for Beijing ( formerly Peking ), and TAO for Qingdao ( formerly Tsingtao ).

It appears, by a vast number of experiments made at Peking, that its colour is owing to no mixture ; on the contrary, all mixtures diminish its beauty, for, when it is rightly managed it looks exactly like silver and were there not a necessity of mixing a little tutenag or such metal to soften it, it would be so much more the extraordinary as this sort of copper is found no where but in China and that only in the Province of Yunnan ".

The Convention of Peking or the First Convention of Peking is the name used for three different unequal treaties, which were concluded between Qing China and the United Kingdom, France, and Russia.

Xu Zhiyong, Teng Biao, and another doctoral student from Peking University raised the unconstitutionality of the investigation in the Sun Zhigang case ; initiated a grassroots local people ’ s congress primary election procedure.

In 1908 the Faculty of Education was named as the Imperial Capital School of Supreme Teacher Training, and was separated from the Imperial Capital University which then developed to Peking University, another prestigious university in China.

In 2010, he team-taught a Seminar at Peking University, taught a course " Philosophy of Religion " at Beijing Normal University, and taught another course, " Philosophy of Mind " at Beijing University of Chemical Technology.