The Forbidden City and Peking Duck – China Travel

www.borrowedculture.com — The Forbidden City was large, it was cold, and it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. Nothing better to cure such maladies than a true Peking Duck Lunch! Duck Webbing is not for the faint of heart.

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