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Added by Jopie, at 22 August 2016
Opening Hours
- Monday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Tuesday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Wednesday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Thursday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Saturday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Sunday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
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9 Reviews
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07 September 2017
Good service and great quality of roast duck! Highly recommended!
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28 July 2017
Great food! Would have given a 5 star but serving an endangered creature like the sea cucumber should be illegal. Service was good but not superb. Kind of slow. Presentation was beautiful.
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30 June 2017
2017 January, my boyfriend first came and visited China. Uncle and Dad took us to eat Beijing Duck at DA DONG ROAST DUCK 北京大董烤鸭店. It was our the first time having traditional Beijing Duck in China. We arrived the restaurant at 12 pm, and it had already the big lineup. It took us more than 1 hour to wait for the table. The restaurant looked super fancy and cleaned. Customers could take a look at the menu before they got a seat. The menu was super larger with fancy dish pictures, which made customers easier to order the food. The dishes represented more Chinese Culture rather than taste. The prices were super expensive. We ordered all duck dishes. The duck here was quite good, crispier, fresh and tasty, but many of them were quite small, so you should order more dishes if you have a large group. We much enjoyed our duck lunch. In my opinion, Of course, it’s the best place to take guests who are from other countries.
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17 May 2017
Great food great service well worth the price
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07 May 2017
Food was amazing! Service was ok but the quality of food makes it worth it!!
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27 November 2016
Terrible service!!! We were ushered in by a disinterested waitress. Our table wasn't laid out. This was one of the top things we were looking forward to in Beijing. We were given the menus, we were deciding what to order for drink, appetizers and of course the duck. The waitress comes to us and asked us what duck do you want? We figured duck would take time to roast so we were being asked to order that before hand. We ordered the duck and were looking through the menu to order appetizers and drinks. Voila 5 mins later I noticed a movement behind me and the guy had started carving our roasted duck. We were at first confused since our drink orders were not taken and no one asked if we wanted to order anything else. We told the waitress that she hadn't taken our complete order. Her response was you wanted duck right? At that point we were too pissed to order anything else, we ate what was in front of us, paid for it and left. I won't comment on the food because it does not matter after being treated like this. We are tourists and new to China, we have eaten at a lot of local places during our visit. This is the first time I have seen such a terrible service, in fact this takes the top spot of being the worst restaurant experiences ever!!! Congrats Da Dong!!!
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31 October 2016
Satisfactory service and great quality of roast duck! Highly recommended!
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13 October 2016
Da Dong is to duck what Lucas-Carton in Paris is to Nouvelle Cuisine: the epitome of how to prepare, cook and serve duck in a magnificent way.
The restaurant decor is a modern take on the 70s. It's a big place, with a very large common room and like so many big restaurants in Beijing, lots of small private rooms you can book for the evening with a minimum order guarantee. The restaurant is well lit and very clean. I can't say the same of many local restaurants. You access it by an elevator, just like you access the famous Tour d'Argent in Paris by an elevator. The reception girls lead you to your seat very quickly, no wait.
The feat starts with the menu: the photos of the dishes are absolutely impressive. Each dish is a composition like a painting. Extremely creative. It reminded me of a ryokan I stayed at in Kyoto, where each dish was created like a landscape. Absolutely stunning. Da Dong puts the same level of effort in their presentation, it's gorgeous.
My date and I ordered duck (what else?) accommodated in several manners. At Da Dong, you pick the duck you will eat from those that hang next to the oven. It's a ritual: pick your entire duck, and this specific duck will be cooked only for you.
Each dish was a discovery of how duck can taste so differently depending on spices and cooking style. French and Chinese chefs prepare duck in a very different way. Whereas in the French culinary tradition a magret (filet) will be pink inside and a confit will be as melting under the tongue as well-cooked pulled pork, Chinese cuisine prepares duck well done but tender. This is the case of Imperial duck and roasted duck dishes. Certain dishes are so roasted, they crack under your teeth.
In the Imperial style of cuisine, skin is served apart from the meat. You wrap it in a small rice flour galette together with Chinese onions, and dip this "soft taco" in a deep brown slightly sweet soja sauce. To die for.
A specialist slices the meat of the Imperial duck before your eyes on a tray table, and serves you the various parts of the duck in stages. It's a long ceremony dedicated to celebrating the many tastes of duck.
Da Dong has an impressive wine list which includes many French wines but also New World wines from Argentina and Chili. My date and I weren't into wines, so we had a high-class tea to accompany the meal.
Prices are commensurate with the experience, though relatively reasonable compared with fares in 5-star restaurants in other large cities.
Da Dong is a feast for the eye, the nose and the palate. It is a very specialized slice of an incredibly rich Chinese culinary tradition. If you never tried duck, don't go to a cheap duck place; go to Da Dong. If you are a duck connoisseur, go to Da Dong too. You will be "enchanté".response / report this review -
29 August 2016
One of the most famous roast duck restaurant in recent 5 years in China. Good and clean environment, delicious food, and high price of course. Frankly speaking, you may find huge amounts of roast duck restaurant as delicious as this one, and paying much less.
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