Duck, duck, ... mmm....

The other week, i had the worst craving for Arby's mozzarella sticks. It was nearly 10 PM and even though we drove to the nearest location in Calgary, it was already closed. However, in the same strip mall as Arby's, i saw a restaurant called something "Peking House". I can only think of one thing when i hear the word "peking", which of course is duck. and i LOVE peking duck! Sometimes Jesse and I will drive nearly an hour to the nearest T&T and buy a BBQ duck and eat it at home with just some rice. It's been so long though that we had eaten duck in a restaurant in a course meal and i had oddly been thinking of duck for a few weeks. and it was just by pure chance that we had seen this place. Even though we've been here nearly 4 years, we still don't know Calgary very well and have yet to discover our places that we like to eat. 

So yesterday we talked about trying out this something "Peking House" and we drove to Canyon Meadows (about a 20-minute drive). My mom doesn't eat duck and she was out anyway, so just the three of us went. We ordered the three-course peking duck meal, which consists of duck skin wraps, duck fried rice or noodle (we got noodles), and duck soup. If you aren't familiar with this, they take the crispy skin off the duck and you get little flour wraps, some veggies, and like a garlicky hoisin sauce to wrap it all up. Then they take the meat off the duck and make the noodle or rice dish. Then, they take the bones/carcass of the duck and make a soup. It's really quite delicious (and a lot of food for two adults!) and usually runs about $40-$50 for the meal. 

I have never seen Gemma eat like that my entire life. She ate nearly two wraps on her own, was basically crying for more duck meat, loved the noodles, and even slurped up the soup! We had to almost cut our dinner early and leave because i was scared Gemma was actually going to explode. She wouldn't stop eating and kept dragging noodles off the center plate! We had to loosen her car seat straps to fit her in; i've never seen her belly so big.

As much as i love what a good eater Gemma is, i think she lacks the part of the brain that tells her she should stop eating when full - and i'm guilty of passing that on to her...

now....where's that leftover duck??