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Majestic Peking Duck: World’s First Peking Duck Hawker?

By KF Seetoh - Monday, Jul 04, 2016

At $24 for this platter, it’s one of the cheapest Peking Duck you can get from this part of the equator.

 

This may be a world’s first Peking Duck hawker stall. And no, it’s not some make shift dirt wood fire stove by some roadside where the cook is seen blowing into the neck crevice to inflate the duck just before they roast it. But it’s close though. The award winning Chef Yong Bing Ngen and Chef Yang Lai Fatt from the Majestic Group of restaurants under the Unlisted Collection Group, have gone hawking. They still inflate the duck (to separate the skin from flesh) albeit with a mechanical inflator and technically it’s by the roadside (along Raffles Avenue by Marina Bay) and they use the classic Apollo oven (ubiquitous at char siew and roast duck stalls).

 

A brilliant idea for the jaded fried rice fans- Duck Fried Rice with Crispy Cereal.
It’s a clever mix of greens doused with a umami laden sauce and truffle oil that makes the Duck Salad extremely moreish.

 

When asked, Chef Yong said “Why not serve these 5 star restaurant fare at the hawkers. People love their food there too.” And the relentless nightly crowd that throng Makansutra Gluttons Bay, was “of course, another key reason.”

 

They do this soft shell crab with Thai Mango very well, so in it goes to the menu at the Majestic Duck stall.
Why go for chicken wings, when you can have Honey Glazed Roasted Duck Wings

 

So come 5th July at 5pm, their brand new Majestic Duck hawker stall will offer up five versions of a duck dish- the Peking Duck, Fried Duck Rice with Crispy Cereal, Honey Glazed Roasted Duck Wings, Duck Salad with Truffle Sauce and a Salted Vegetable Duck Soup. Just for the heck of it (and because they do this so well) they offer a Crispy Soft Shell Crab with Thai Mango Salad.

 

Fond favourites of many, the Salted Duck Vegetable Soup

 

And here’s everybody’s favourite part- their Peking Duck Platter at $24 ,comes at under half the price of what they sell in their restaurant, and you get an idea of what prices they are hawking their dishes at here.

 

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