Peking Duck House

Name: Peking Duck House
Address: 236 E 53rd St, New York, NY, 10022, US
Telephone: 212-759-8260
Price range: $$$

Cantonese/Mandarin$$$

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Sun-Thu 11:45am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 11:45am-10pm

236 E 53rd St, New York, NY 10022
212-759-8260
Last verified: August 2026
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Crispy fried dish served over orange slices at Peking Duck House

Peking duck: Beijing's showpiece: a whole duck air-dried and roasted until the skin is glass-crisp, carved at the table and wrapped in thin pancakes with scallion, cucumber and sweet bean sauce. Usually ordered ahead and priced whole or half. Cantonese roast duck is a different, marinated bird served chopped over rice. On this menu as: Peking Duck · Peking Duck Dinner Packages · Peking Duck Dinner.
Fish-fragrant (yu xiang): A Sichuan seasoning of pickled chili, garlic, ginger, scallion, sugar and vinegar, originally used for fish and now most famous on eggplant and shredded pork. There is no fish in it; "in garlic sauce" on American-Chinese menus is usually this flavor profile. On this menu as: Shredded Chicken with Garlic Sauce · Sliced Pork with Garlic Sauce · Shrimp in Garlic Sauce.
Moo shu: A northern Chinese stir-fry of shredded pork (or chicken, vegetables), scrambled egg, wood-ear mushroom and cabbage, brought to the table with thin wheat pancakes and hoisin to roll it up yourself. On this menu as: Moo Shu Pork · Moo-Shu Pork.
Har gow: Steamed shrimp dumplings with a translucent, chewy wheat-starch skin pleated around whole or chopped shrimp. The classic test of a dim sum kitchen: the wrapper should be thin enough to see the pink through it but strong enough to lift with chopsticks without tearing. On this menu as: Steamed Shrimp Dumpling (6 pieces).
Fried rice: Day-old rice stir-fried with egg, scallion and whatever the kitchen adds. Yangzhou (Yang Chow) style means shrimp, char siu and peas, and is the version most menus mean by "house special". Good fried rice is dry and separate-grained, never wet. On this menu as: Fried Rice.
Mala: Literally "numbing-hot": the Sichuan pairing of dried or fresh chili (la) with Sichuan peppercorn (ma), a citrusy husk that leaves a tingling buzz on the lips. Any dish or dry pot labeled mala will have both. On this menu as: Ma-La Chicken.

How these dishes compare

Fried ricetypically $13.97 across 254 menus
Egg rolltypically $6.23 across 194 menus
Fish-fragrant (yu xiang)typically $14 across 151 menus
Peking ducktypically $19.95 across 129 menus
Har gowtypically $8.86 across 107 menus
General Tso's chickentypically $16 across 104 menus
Moo shutypically $15.92 across 54 menus

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