Quanjude, a time-honored Chinese brand, was founded in 1864 (the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty). The founder of Quanjude was Yang Quanren.

When Yang Quanren first arrived in Beijing, he sold raw chickens and ducks in Qianmenwai Meat Market Street. Yang Quanren has a detailed understanding of how to sell ducks, and his business is getting more and more prosperous. He lived frugally and saved more and more money like a snowball. Every day when Yang Quanren goes to the meat market to set up a stall to sell chickens and ducks, he has to pass by a dried fruit shop called "Dejuquan". Although the shop's signboard is eye-catching, its business has been declining. In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), the business collapsed and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The shrewd Yang Quanren seized this opportunity and spent his many years of savings to buy the "Dejuquan" store.

Then he invited Qian Zilong, a scholar who was very accomplished in calligraphy, to write the three characters "Quanjude" and made a gold plaque to hang on the lintel.

Quanjude hired Master Sun, which means he has mastered all the techniques of Qing palace hanging oven roast duck. Master Sun changed the original oven into a hanging oven with a large height and a deep and wide hearth. It can roast more than a dozen ducks in one oven. It can also roast ducks while roasting them. The duck he roasted was beautiful in appearance, plump and plump, bright in color, jujube in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat, delicious and fragrant, fat but not greasy, thin but not woody. Quanjude Roast Duck won the title of "Beijing Master's Delicious Food". Yuya" reputation.

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"Quanjude" is not only famous at home and abroad for its roast duck, but also a series of fine dishes represented by whole duck banquets, special dishes, innovative dishes, and celebrity banquets. The cuisine culture is inclusive of all rivers.

In the hands of chef Quanjude, the whole body of the duck turned into a treasure. While making roast duck, chefs of all ages have carefully created a variety of delicious hot and cold dishes using raw materials such as duck wings, duck feet, duck hearts, duck livers, and duck gizzards. After years of accumulation, the "Quanjude Whole Duck Banquet" has been formed, represented by mustard duck paws, Huo Liao duck heart, braised duck with four treasures, hibiscus plum duck tongue, duck wrapped shark's fin, etc.

What is quite interesting is that one time when Vice Chairman Wang Guangying was having a meal in Quanjude, he said: "The 'whole duck banquet' has all the duck ingredients, but one dish is missing." Everyone couldn't think of it. When asked what it was, he laughed: "It's a duck egg!" Everyone suddenly realized. After careful research, a new dish - "Crystal Duck Treasure" - was added to Quanjude's menu, filling the gap in the "whole duck banquet".

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