Where do Chicago chefs like AbeConlon and deensie like to eat out on their night off?
This is going to be weird, because everybody's going to say a hot dog, a pizza. But no. There's a place in Chicago called Sun Wah. When someone visits me in Chicago, this is the first or the last place that I take them. The thing to order is the barbecue duck, which has skin that’s crispy like a chicharrón. But it’s not actually on the menu; you have to call 24 hours in advance, and you have to tell them you want to order the off-menu Beijing-duck feast.
So you order the duck; you come in and say,"Hey, we got a reservation for five"; sit down. The server's gonna come to the table, and you're going to say,"Hey, we ordered the duck." They know what the duck is. They bring this duck out on a cart. It's breast side up. It's glistening. It's brownish red. It's beautiful. And then they slice this duck at your table with a meat cleaver. They cut it like it's sashimi.
So, while you're eating and everybody's fighting over the crispiest piece of skin right now, and filling their buns up, and they bring you this hot sauce and hoisin sauce, stuff starts trickling out. They'll bring the soup out first, and then they bring out the duck fried rice. The table's going to be quiet for, like, the first 10 minutes. No one's going to say anything. It's like everybody's just feeding their face.
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