Police raided the Peking duck

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In a Switzerland-wide coordinated major action the police have also checked Asian Catering establishments in Canton Zurich. The action is directed against a Chinese tractor network.

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genetic heritage of the "Peking Duck" decrypted

An international team of scientists under Chinese leadership has deciphered the genetic material of the mallard ("Anas platyrchynchos"). Especially important to the results of their immune system genes could be because ducks are a classic reservoir for influenza viruses.

The study:
"The duck genome and transcriptome to Provide insight into avian influenza virus reservoir species" of Yinhua Huang and colleagues is on 9.6. in "Nature Genetics" appeared.
Yinhua by Huang State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology in Hong Kong and his colleagues report in their study that the ducks are genetically well adapted to survive infection with influenza A viruses.

Franc wine for Peking Duck

With the representative of the Franks in the world, it is badly gone down the drain, since the Guttenberg saying goodbye to the covers and went into self-imposed exile in America. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is good as well as his Bavarian counterpart Joachim Herrmann ex officio not quite to people from, say, Romania, Chechnya and Somalia to convince them of the Franconian hospitality. And Lothar Matthäus indeed come around a lot in the world, but many Herzogenauracher would prefer if one could not even listen so much to the ex-football player who stands out more as a companion changing significantly younger women today where he comes from. Even when he speaks English. And right of celebrities such as cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and actress Sandra Bullock again hardly anyone knows that they spent their childhood in Franconia.

Pekin Duck-fattening from Melle unfairly pilloried?

Peta speaks of anguish breeding

Melle. After the ARD had reported on Tuesday evening in the program "Report Mainz" about a Peking duck-fattening farm in Melle-Schlochtern and have used it secretly taken pictures of the animal rights organization Peta, were Peta-adviser Edmund Haferbeck demanded yesterday by Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Gert Lindemann: "Stop You cruelty to animals in the farms. "

6500 Peking ducks were yesterday in the pole barn at Melle. It was here pictures of Peta, the serious violations of the Animal Protection Act are intended to show. For the fattening Tobias Meyer Schlochtern the allegations are unfounded. It would have also shown the official controls.

Tobias Meyer Schlochtern was created illegally in the pekin duck-fattening unit at least some of the recordings, the charge of cruelty to animals exhibited yesterday in an interview with our newspaper back vigorously. "Peta has zeroed in on the company Wiesenhof, and we fatteners are in there pulled." In fact, the animal rights organization has been doing years attention to alleged and actual abuses in German breeding and fattening farms that produce for the food producers Wiesenhof (Visbek).

Wiesenhof, claims to be "Germany's No. 1 poultry brand", brought the chicks for fattening operation in Schlochtern, delivered the food and took approximately 43 days after the then slaughtering ducks again. Meyer Schlochtern has been separated but a few weeks ago from Wiesenhof "mutual agreement" to avoid being placed in the pillory with.

Peking duck meat recipe preparation

The Peking Duck is the famous dish of Chinese food. The preparation takes one day.

Air is blown between the skin and flesh, then seasoned the duck, coated with a honey marinade and then hung up to dry.

It is then cooked in a special hanging oven, the skin swells up again, and will receive their crispy-brown color.

After the duck has been shown to the guest, it is cut into thin slices and served with soy sauce, scallions, cucumber and pancakes.

Enjoy wrapped the duck with vegetables and sauce in a pancake.

Recipe - Peking Duck "Beijing kao ya"

Cut off wing tips and feet of the duck and the bird carefully scarfing. Make an incision on the abdomen and exclude the duck. The neck also attach a small Einscnitt and remove these by the trachea and esophagus. The duck wash and thoroughly dry. (You can also give the duck into a sieve and pour boiling water over. This is the beautiful shiny skin.) Salt the duck inside. A straw between skin and meat, and push air blow, until the skin all over my body apart easily. The two incisions with kitchen twine to sew. Tie a string around his neck and hang the duck over a bowl. Molasses or honey, dissolve in hot water. Stir in salt and ground ginger. Brush the duck around it with the liquid. This process is repeated once or twice, while the recycled into the bowl of dripping. The duck, which now looks like painted in a cool, airy place for at least two hours, but overnight is best, let it dry. The skin must then be completely dry. Preheat the oven to 180-200oC. Fill the pan juices halfway with warm water and install a larger distance to the grid about it. The duck breast with the top down on the grill and cook for 30-45 minutes. In between, always check back, as the duck can tan in any case too strongly. Reduce the heat slightly. Gently turn the duck, without injuring the skin, and cook for 30-45 minutes. After the cooking time, if necessary, raise the temperature again and continue roasting the duck until the skin is golden brown and crispy. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. For sugar and bean paste veruehren in the water. Sesamoel the oil in a pan. And pour the sauce and thicken with constant stirring. Instead of this homemade sauce you can also use a finishing sauce, which is under the name "hai xian" (= "hoisin sauce") in the trade. While the duck cooks, brush the leeks and cut into 7 cm long pieces. The sections on both sides closed to cut up lengthwise, and then put in ice water, with the ends spread like a brush. The ready-cooked duck from the oven. The flesh with skin with a sharp knife, cut diagonally into thin slices and arrange them on a preheated plate. Serve immediately and to the rich sauce, leek brush and Mandarin pancakes. Each guest takes a pancake, smear it with sauce, which he uses a leek brush, puts a slice of duck meat on it, roll the pancake with the help of rods and leads the whole thing with relish to his mouth. Another opportunity to enjoy the Peking Duck: Once the table is set and the Mandarin pancakes, sauce damages moose and all the other ingredients are ready and when the guests are invited to dinner time it is the cooks, the whole duck, by the present is duly admired. Then the bird is carved. First of you can enjoy the crispy skin and juicy at the same time, along with pancakes and various sauces. Next, the sliced ​​meat with various side dishes will be applied. And to finish the meal before one writes the traditional soup from the remains of the duck is cooked to broth and vegetables.

Peking duck meat kebab?

Oh, you beautiful German doner!
Kebab in China is regarded as quintessentially German specialty. But it tastes like in Beijing in Kreuzberg?


Doner makes beautiful, but it is not easy to find him. A kebab stand in Beijing
The Peking duck was to blame. With quick strokes dismantled the cook, the dark red skin of the mummified-looking animal with small bricks, which he stacked in front of me on a plate. Then he sat next to the dried bird's head and wished good appetite. My stomach was waved off. My table partner Yinna laughed. "Now you try on the duck. And tomorrow you'll get German food. I will show you the best doner kebab in Beijing. "Is there in Beijing kebab? Yinna should know. The 31 years of her life she spent in the Chinese capital. Her fluent German language comes from two years teaching at the university. In the high season in the fall it takes sometimes Western travelers to the hand and helps them find their way in the Moloch of their hometown.

The doner was introduced in China ten years ago. A Chinese businessman was noticed on a trip through Germany, in that it gives us good running kebab stands on every corner. Imitation in China means "homage in front of a good idea, so the man opened in the fall of 2000 in Beijing with a booth" German doner. The store itself has long since closed. But the idea will survive. There are now many Chinese cities, "Turkish Barbeque." This term for the meat sandwich has prevailed in the country. But where these stalls can be found in Beijing? "With the addresses is the" not so easy for us, says Yinna. Away from the big, always traffic jam clogged the main roads is sometimes only an address from the number one road block, or refers to a sharp point, a shopping center, for example, which already exists but is no longer possible. The city is changing furiously. Even the locals find it difficult to find since. Accordingly, the vague secrets for the kebab stands, which pass homesick German in China on Internet forums are: "Somewhere in the back of the 3.3-mall" or "fifth Yaxiu floor of the market ".

Yinnas favorite doner kebab, there is a side road that branches off from the Wangfujing pedestrian street in downtown. Unfortunately they can not come the next day. Yeh Yeh, her little daughter is ill. So I'm alone on the road with a road map, the Yinna has made for me. Wangfujing is the most popular pedestrian zone of Beijing. It is located just blocks away from Tiananmen Square. Here it looks like any pedestrian zone in the world, only it is wider. About a hundred yards behind the striking Wangfujing Bookstore and the neighboring McDonald's branches left from a lane from the pedestrian zone. It is spanned by a colorful Blumentor. Here every inch of food stalls lined. There are indefinable baked meatballs, noodles and fried scorpions meters long. After a few meters, the street branches off into smaller streets. The power of black-haired man takes munching on me and pushed me deeper and deeper into the market with its sharp smells, and hustle his alluring call. "Where are you from?" Screeches, a skinny young Chinese and waves. "Germany good! Germany eat here! "He enthusiastically shows a layered meatball that turns bulky in the tiny shack. Unmistakably a kebab skewer. He immediately begins to saber. His technique is no different from that of colleagues in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Even his question. "Spicy?" By focusing on? I just want to nod habitually. But what he is doing now with the flesh? The piece can be chopped off plop it into the fat dripped down. Now he throws a spoon geschnipselten salad and begins to mix everything thoroughly. Before I can protest, he draws the now pulpy mixture into a small, pale pita and keeps the whole thing against me proud. »5 yuan" - about 60 cents. The paper bag in which lies the kebab looks original like in Germany and is labeled "Turkey doner kebab." I bite into it. Tastes like well-seasoned, but extremely greasy chicken. It's definitely a doner kebab. But the best of Beijing? At the next level is the delivery of long wooden skewers strung with beetles, their legs still twitching. Germany is located 10,000 kilometers.

I drive a taxi in the Chaoyang district. The Chinese address of Schindler's Food Center Deutsch I've printed out. For security to the question "Where is Turkish barbecue?" In Chinese to the top point. The German supermarket in the mid-nineties by a former colonel in the army from Dresden opened. When his employer was settled, he trained at the butcher, emigrated to China and became rich. The doner kebab, which he began to offer in his supermarket at some point, the Board unanimously praised immigrants as "the best in Beijing."

In large districts controlled by the driver on the address. Now and then he gets out and asks colleagues for advice obviously have no idea, but always resolute nod. On the momentum with which they show in some direction, I try to read, who has at least a glimmer. In a side street, the driver finally stops in front of a nondescript shop. Schindler looks Deutsch's Food Center as a well-stocked convenience store. Packages are available on shelves with Milupa milk and follow-Spreewald gherkins. On the walls there ever a more spreading of meat and cheese counter. Previously, two tables with benches. But where's the kebab? A lonely man sitting there noticed my searching eyes. "The authorities have banned two months ago, unfortunately." He introduces himself as Denis from New Haven. Years ago, he is stuck in the city. "Is there no worse than elsewhere. Only the food is a problem. The Chinese stuff is getting on my stomach. "Almost every week he comes to Schindler's why. "The Chinese have said, this is a supermarket, because you may not sell ready-made food." Full turn pale, he chews on a roll that has occupied him for the sausage seller solace with cold roast.

The mysterious Peking Duck

Joel Ruhland, class 4K3, elementary school Kippenheim

On a beautiful Sunday morning as Zetti went with his little dog Fritz to the lake. There he ran around for a while, until he saw from afar a duck came running towards him. The duck could talk. B. Zetti nearly fainted. The duck said: "When I went down to the bottom of the lake, I saw a pumpkin castle." B. Zetti replied: "Wait a minute here, I'll get my scuba gear."

Then appeared as Zetti and the duck until the pumpkin castle. They knocked on the Kürbistor. As did the Halloween pumpkin with a gun and asked, "What do you want here and who you are anyway?" The duck replied shyly: "We want to look at your city." The pumpkin they start asking.

When they were finished inside the Kürbistor and the two were arrested. Later you woke up in an old, dark and dank dungeon. They were afraid that you would die here. B. Zetti looked around and saw an old guitar. He took it and played on it. It was a magical guitar that opened their eyes. She said as Zetti: "Shall I help you?" The duck was delighted and said: "With pleasure."

The magic guitar playing a song and hypnotize the guards. Then the doors opened and the two were able to get out of the dungeon. B. Zetti took the rifle out of the pumpkin and haute castle from the duck. She reappeared and as Zetti rejoiced: "Now I have something for the press conference"