Where is the most authentic roast duck in Beijing?

"It's a pity that you won't eat roast duck until you reach the Great Wall." This is the symbolic propaganda word of Beijing tourism. However, although there are countless roast duck restaurants in Beijing, the roast duck here seems to refer only to Quanjude's roast duck. It is Quanjude's roast duck that makes it the "signature dish" of Beijing catering industry. Nowadays, Quanjude has many semicolons. Not only the south, north, east and west of the city cover almost four or nine cities, but also many cities in China and even abroad. However, many semicolons in Quanjude all over the country are not like several Quanjude fires in Beijing, and Quanjude in Shenzhen, Nanjing and other places has also closed down. The reason here is simple. Quanjude roast duck is a highlight of Beijing, and eating Beijing roast duck in other places is not the same taste after all. Therefore, where to eat roast duck is actually very particular. On the other hand, to eat roast duck in Beijing, you must choose the store outside Qianmen. Qianmen Quanjude is the root of Quanjude. At that time, Yang, the founder of Quanjude, settled down here. Yang is from Yangjiazhai, Jixian County, Hebei Province. When he first arrived in Beijing, he bought and sold raw chickens and ducks in a street in the meat market outside Qianmen. He carefully figured out the way to sell ducks, and his business became more and more prosperous. Coupled with the frugality on weekdays, I have accumulated a lot of savings. Every day when Yang goes to the meat market to set up a stall to sell chickens and ducks, he will pass by a dried fruit shop called "Dejuquan". Although the signboard of this shop is very eye-catching, the business is getting worse every day. Tongzhi for three years (1864), on the verge of bankruptcy. Yang seized this opportunity, took out his savings for many years and bought the shop of "Dejuquan". What brand name should I have if I have my own shop? Yang invited a Mr. Feng Shui. Mr. Feng Shui walked around the shop twice and said, "This is a treasure trove of Feng Shui. The two alleys on both sides of this shop are like two sedan chairs. Building a building in the future is like eight sedan chairs. The future is limitless! " Mr. Feng Shui added: "However, in the past, this store was unlucky and it was difficult to get rid of bad luck. Bad luck can only be washed away if the old word number of' Dejuquan' is reversed and changed to' Quanjude'. " Yang is very satisfied with the font size of "Quanjude": on the one hand, his name has the word "Quande", on the other hand, "Jude" means gathering virtue, which can flaunt business and stress virtue. So he named the store "Quanjude". Then, he asked Qian Zilong, a scholar, to write the three characters "Quanjude" and made a gold plaque to hang on the lintel. However, sharp-eyed diners may find that the word "de" on the Quanjude plaque is missing a horizontal line. According to the elders, when Boss Yang asked Qian Zilong to write an inscription, they had a good drink first. Because Qian Xiucai drank two more cups, he accidentally forgot to write the word "De". However, there is a saying that a nose has eyes: when Yang started his business, a guy * * * hired 13, plus a guy * * * himself 14. In order to let everyone work with peace of mind, Qi Xin made concerted efforts, and Qian Xiucai was asked to write one line less, indicating that everyone could not draw a knife in their hearts. In fact, the real reason is that the word "De" has been written a lot before, and there are two ways to write it, which can be written horizontally or not. The word "De" in the Imperial Book of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, which is now hidden in the Confucius Temple in imperial academy, Beijing, is not horizontal; The word "De" written by Zheng Banqiao, a painter in Qing Dynasty, has horizontal lines as well as horizontal lines. Therefore, in the past, the two ways of writing the word "de" were correct. After the establishment of Quanjude brand, Yang knew that if he wanted to have a prosperous business, he had to rely on a good cook, a good boss and a good shopkeeper. He often goes to various roast duck restaurants to find a roast duck master. Later, he found that there was a master Sun who cooked roast duck for the Forbidden City in Jinhua Hall. He is very good at roast duck, so he tries his best to make friends with him and often drinks and plays chess together. Their relationship is getting closer and closer. Master Sun was finally persuaded by Yang to go to Quanjude with a large sum of money. Quanjude hired Master Sun, which is equivalent to mastering all the techniques of hanging roast duck in Qing Palace. Master Sun changed the original oven into a hanging oven. The oven has a large height and a wide hearth, and one oven can roast more than a dozen ducks. You can also roast duck facing inward. The roast duck baked by him is beautiful in appearance, fat and full, bright in color, purplish red in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat, fragrant and crisp, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, which has won the reputation of "delicious in Beijing, better than a duck" for Quanjude roast duck. At that time, there were many old brands with the same name as Quanjude, such as cheap houses, casserole houses and Liuquanju. However, why only Quanjude has become the representative of Beijing catering? Some time-honored old people said, "Quanjude has a good place to drive, which is very close to Tiananmen Square. Our country invites foreign guests to dine there. You said it wouldn't fire. " Maybe that's what Mr. Feng Shui said. After the founding of New China, Quanjude's roast duck is as famous as Maotai, and it has become a "signboard" for national leaders to entertain foreign dignitaries and display China's food culture. Premier Zhou Enlai paid great attention to the development of Quanjude before his death. He not only suggested cutting the roast duck into strips, but also branded the lotus leaf cake into an oval shape, which was convenient for diners to roll. He also personally commented on the word "Quanjude": "Everything is not lacking, gathering but not dispersing, and benevolence is supreme". This note has become the core of Quanjude's corporate culture. A roast duck can be favored by national leaders, and it does have something extraordinary. Beijing roast duck is roasted with Beijing stuffed duck. The so-called "duck stuffing" means that people force stuffing three times a day and fill feed with duck stuffing. Ducks bred by artificial fertilization have white fur, plump figure, tender meat and delicious taste. Quanjude's roast duck has complicated technology. Roast duck goes through eight processes before roasting: inflation, evisceration, cleaning, meat hooking, scalding, sugar beating and air drying. Blow up the air in order to blow up the duck body and make the duck skin tight and wrinkle-free; Beating sugar is to brush the duck with caramel water, so that the duck skin can be baked in bright colors. Not only that, the roast duck should be filled with boiling water before entering the furnace, and a sorghum stalk should be kept in the tail of the duck to prevent the boiling water from flowing out. During baking, hot air enters to keep the water in the duck cavity boiling. Because it is baked outside and cooked inside, the roast duck is crispy outside and tender inside, and tastes delicious. Hanging furnace open flame baking, using fruity wood as fuel, generally using jujube as the main material, supplemented by peaches and pears. The sweet smell of fruit trees is secreted into the duck, which makes the roast duck particularly fragrant and beautiful. In addition, when roasting, it is necessary to constantly rotate the hanging stalk so that the salted duck does not directly catch fire. Roasted duck, fat oil flows out and then penetrates into the duck. Duck skin is purplish red, full of oil, pleasing to the eye and mouth-watering. Now go to Quanjude to eat roast duck, and finally give you a roast duck ID card to tell the guests which duck you ate in Quanjude. According to statistics, Quanjude has roasted more than 1 100 million ducks. These roast ducks are connected end to end and can circle the earth several times.