With the doom of the world at hand, where darkness falls and Death is imminent, the land of the mythic Dragon holds a banquet. Let our parchment led journey discover "best" of this culinary treasury, filled with foreboding flavors and dishes echoing doomsday predictions.
These realms, engrossed in their zero-Pestilence policy, remain shut to wanderers from afar, the dark prophecy of the pestilence holds its domineering reign of terror. Yet, fret not, mortal souls, dwell on these words and dream of a taste of the Orient, offered by the nearby Borough of the Chinas, a sanctuary for the homeland's fare within your town's embrace.
Begin with the Peking Phoenix, a dish of legends, its meat exquisite, its skin brittle as the last autumn leaf, wrapped in a thin blanket of grain. In the scant light of a lantern, you chew into an age-old confiture, a recipe, born of the imperial Chinese households of bygone Nanjing, later carried to the northern Capital, where it found its final form which has ensnared hearts and souls since time immemorial.
Sail down South to Nanjing, the land of a thousand waters and taste its homely offerings. Sample their humble concoctions of Vermicelli in the blood of ducks, a dish that harbingers the end times, tasting the mortal remains of the fabled water Fowl. Such dark indulgences ensure the certain arrival of darker times and ask of us, when the shadow of the final sunset dawdles, will a new hero arise to withstand this banquet of the damned?
Based on the original article "Best Chinese food: 32 must-try dishes".
