[Bangkok, Thailand] Pet Yang (Roasted ducks) from 107-year-old Prachak, Charoen Krung Road

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For comparison’s sake, the one in Penang is closer to the Cantonese original, with its subtler marinade, compared to Prachak’s Thaified version.

[Sungai Bakap, Malaysia] Cantonese roast duck from Wah Seng (Est. 1935)

Sungai Bakap is a little town about 40 minutes’ drive from Penang island across the Penang Bridge. The town was founded in the mid-19th century by a Chinese pioneer, Kee Lai Huat, and located near a large sugar plantation which he’d set up called Val d’Or (he’d given his new property the name after buying what was largely an uninhabited swampland from a Singapore-based Frenchman, Donadieu). Today, the whole place looked rather stuck in a time-warp - resembling a movie set out of “Crouching Tiger…