Over 115 Million Served

Quanjude, definitely one of the most famous restaurants when it comes to Peking Duck.

They roast their duck in a brick oven much like we do our pizzas here in the US. And each duck comes with a commemorative card certifying the duck's place in history. Our duck was the 115,145,626th duck served since the establishment of the restaurant.

Well, just by numbers along this may not be as impressive as McDonald's over one billion served. But when you take a look behind the numbers, the real story emerges. How many burgers make up a cow? Let's say that we get 10 burgers out of a cow. That would bring McDonald's number down to over 100 million cows served. Now we see how impressive the Quanjude number is. (It's practically a duck genocide, though we will not go there)

After that totally unprofound and utterly futile analysis of burger patty to cow ratio, let me just say that the Peking Duck there is again very tasty (my mouth is watering just thinking about it now) and business is as good as usual at the most famous Peking Duck place in China, in spite of the scare of the Avian flu and all.

(After doing some research for this post, I feel a bit slighted, I found out that Bianyifang is the oldes Peking duck place in Beijing and I've never tried it. Next time I will be sure to try it and provide a full report.)