I'm also confused about your Peking DUck experience. Peking Duck is served in two or three courses. At the China House it comes as two courses, the first is the duck skin dipped in hoisin sauce in the "pancakes" (all done at your table) and then a second course is the meat carved from the duck (back in the kitchen) and prepared in a sauce of your choice and returned to you. Did you not get one of these two courses?

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Just wanted to give an example of how two people can get two different experiences...
so, last night i am telling the BF about this thread and that Poon had some "slighlty negative" comments (which of course we are all entitled to) anyway i went on to say how "she is only a driver not a guide blah blah blah" and he say, well i thought she was only OK and if i'm honest i wouldn't massively recommend her... i am like "WHAT" cause this was not the impression i got. He felt she could have been a bit more forth coming with info on CM but i pointed out SHE IS NOT A GUIDE...... So two people SHARING the exact same experience, saw it very differently.
Poon is not for everyone but myself i thought she was nice and i enjoyed her company....

Thought i would share that with you!
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Kathie: Regarding the Peking duck at the China House, first let me say that my husband is Chinese and we have travelled several times to China and have had duck at QuanJude which is THE PLACE to eat Peking duck anywhere in the world. So we are not novices or it is not that we don't know how Peking duck is served. When we first ordered it, there was a question as to whether we wanted it Beijing style?? or Hong Kong style?? Curiously Beijing style being the style you described and Hong Kong style more the style that we were familiar with from eating in china. Finally the chef came to the table and my husband explained our preference in Mandarin. all seemed well until they brought the duck to be cut at the table. In China the duck is carved only by a skillful experienced person who is familiar with carving this bird. In this case, one of the waitresses who had initially been bringing us the hot towels was assigned to the duck carving. She was fumbling all over the place and finally cut about ten slices of the duck meat (including the skin) which was served with the sauce and the pancakes and the green onions. I was literally grateful when she packed up to take the duck into the kitchen thinking that someone who knows what they were doing would then carve the rest of the meat and bring it out. Nothing. My husband asked if there would be soup of the duck which is what is normally served in China and they said the Hong Kong style does not come with soup. In China when the duck is fully carved, they then bring back to the table, the legs and other sections of the bird which are not carvable. Soup follows. So I hope that explains it. Maybe the China House is more familiar with the Beijing style which is how you described it.

Monsoon, Thanks for the explanation. We also like the "Hong Kong" style where the entire duck is sliced and served in the pancakes with sauce & green onion. I think you said you had dim sum at China House for lunch and it was very good. Maybe we should do that instead of duck. Did you have dim sum anywhere else that you would recommend?

CFW: the dim sum at the China House was outstanding. We did not eat dim sum anywhere else in Bangkok, but in HK there are a couple of places. If you are interested let me know and I can dig up the names.

Thanks. We're not going to Hong Kong this trip.. maybe next one. But we'll certainly have dim sum at China House.

carol...make sure to try dim sum at the conrad....the best i have ever had and i have had it at china house....this if far better and much different than the usual.. everyday lunch at liu rest on the 3rd floor

Bob, Based on your recommendation we went to Conrad for dim sum last trip --dim sum were good, but we got there late (couldn't stop shopping!)and they rushed us through, so it was not the best experience. Thought we'd give China House a try this time.

monsoon, thanks for your explanation of the Peking duck issue. That makes it clearer. Certainly you had (consistently) unfortunate experiences at the Oriental.

What do you think of the men's room at D'Sens? I think its the best in Bangkok.

It occurs to me that I've always had Peking Duck Bejing style. I was in Hong Kong two years ago and had gotten recommendations for the place to have the best Peking Duck. Because of the avian flu scare, there was no duck to be had in Hong Kong. I now realize that had I eaten it in Hong Kong I would have had Hong Kong style Peking Duck, and I would have been disappointed no matter how good the duck was!