Chinese Food Goes Ultra Glam at Hakkasan in San Francisco Recipe
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Pipa duck at Hakkasan in San Francisco.
As a child growing up in San Francisco, I remember many a time accompanying my Dad to a Chinatown joint, where he’d order a plate of fluffy steamed rice topped with an ample portion of cleaver-chopped roasted duck for all of $5.
It was cheap, filling and satisfying.
I couldn’t help but flash back to that no-frills dish when I had a far more luxurious version recently at Hakkasan in San Francisco, when I was invited in as a guest of the restaurant.
Oh sure, you can have roast duck with rice here. But it’ll set you back $40.
Yes, that plate of duck alone — 12 slices of gorgeous mahogany skin each covering a sliver of meat resting on a smear of hoisin sauce — is…
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