Chinese Duck Soup (老鸭汤 - lǎo yā tāng)

Name: Chinese Duck Soup (老鸭汤 - lǎo yā tāng)
Total time: 3 h 45 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 kg whole duck; 3.8 l water; 10 ml vegetable oil; 10 g ginger; 2 pc spring onion; 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns; 1 pc star anise; 1 pc dried mandarin orange peel; 680 g daikon radish; 15 g wood ear mushrooms (dried); 20 g shiitake mushrooms (dried); 2 tbsp goji berries; 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp white pepper powder

Rich, fragrant Chinese duck soup made by slow-simmering duck with ginger, scallion, and dried aromatics, finished with daikon, mushrooms and goji berries.

225 min 617 kcal/serving serves 10

617kcal18gprotein7gcarbs57gfat

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🍗whole duck

💧water

🫗vegetable oil

🫚ginger

🧅spring onion

🧂Sichuan peppercorns

🫙star anise

🍊dried mandarin orange peel

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The Woks of Life is a multigenerational family blog written by Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung, an American family with roots across different regions of China. Since 2013 they have published a large archive of tested Chinese recipes, drawing on both home cooking traditions and professional restaurant experience within the family.

Their recipes cover a wide range of Chinese regional cooking, from Northern dumplings and noodles to Cantonese stir-fries, Shanghainese braises, and Sichuan dishes with characteristic heat and numbing spice. They lean on wok technique, proper heat control, and pantry staples like soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and doubanjiang, and they are known for explaining ingredients and methods in detail so home cooks can reproduce restaurant-style results.

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