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| - What a disappointment! I have very high standards when it comes to Chinese food since the ONLY place I will usually go is the Peking Gourmet Inn outside of DC, where the Peking Duck reigns supreme. My husband and I decided to order the duck tasting menu.
We were excited when they first rolled out the whole duck to the table, as it looked like what we would normally expect for Peking Duck. But as they started to carve the duck our outlook changed greatly. They didn't separate the skin from the meat, leaving all the fat trapped in between. They then cut four pieces to be divided between two pancakes each, only to wheel away the remainder of the bird. We watched in horror as it went back into the kitchen. The duck itself was fatty and flavorless, the pancakes fell apart before you could get them into your mouth.
The next course was duck salad, which while beautifully packaged was boring to taste and lacked flavor. It was wrapped in a wonton casing which while you could eat, but was also 100% flavorless. The third course was duck wonton soup - it had a great smoky flavor to the broth, but lacked any real duck meat. Finally, the last two courses, duck chow mein and wok fried duck were also flavorless which seemed to be the theme for the evening.
The food felt as if it was "dumbed down" for a boring American audience. If this is the "best" Chinese in Vegas, they obviously don't know good Chinese food.
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