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Skriven 2008-07-21 21:32:54 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Five-spice duck
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I've written before about A. Dong Supermarket, the large Asian 
market in West Hartford CT. Maryanne  and I were back there 
yesterday and stopped to buy a roasted duck to take out for supper.

The photo at Dave's Cupboard shows the display case where the 
roasted goodies are kept hot pending customer's orders. In the 
background, whole red-roasted chickens hang, followed by strips 
of "baby BBQ pork" (bright red ovals of sweet barbecued pork 
cut from the shoulder.) Hanging on hooks in the center of the 
photo are a number of roasted five-spice ducks, with the head 
and neck still on. To the right, whole roasted pigs hang from 
steel hooks as a deli employee sections them with a razor-sharp 
Chinese chef's knife. In the foreground, three or four roasted 
pig's heads gaze at the ceiling next to several "long feet" 
roasted pig's feet which include the leg all the way up to 
and including the hock.)

Since we arrived at Dong's early in the afternoon, this deli/lunch 
counter was busy. Some girls in front of me in line ordered a 
couple of ducks, and the woman behind the counter took two down 
from the case and brought them to a massive chopping block. Within 
a minute or two, she had the two ducks expertly cut into inch-wide 
strips, packed and arranged in an eye-pleasing manner in lunch-sized
 aluminum pans - half a duck per pan.

I ordered our duck, and the woman picked one down. "Don't throw 
away the head, OK?" I asked her.

She looked at me strangely. "You want duck head? You sure?"

"Yes, thanks."

"Okay. You like tail, too?" she asked. When I said yes, I wanted 
the tail too she gave me a big smile. "I give you extra tail, we 
have some from other duck."

When the cutting and packing were done, she handed me two lunch-
sized aluminum pans artfully packed with inch-wide strips of 
duck...and a plastic bag with four duck tails and the head from 
the duck I ordered.



By the time we got home, the duck skin had lost its crispiness. 
I fired up the charcoal grill and very carefully gave the duck a 
few minutes over the hot coals, warming the meat back up and making 
the duck skin crispy and delightful. "Very carefully" is not an 
exaggeration, because duck is fatty and if not watched closely 
can turn an outdoor grill into an inferno. It turned out delicious.


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