Duck Pier, Wantirna

Celebrating a special occasion recently, we went to Duck Pier to try their Peking Duck. To ensure availability, the restaurant recommends preordering but I saw some diners ordering on the day itself. It comes de-boned and pre-cut so we missed the spectacle of a chef's skill in cutting the whole duck at the table. 

We ordered the Peking Duck set ($55 for half a duck) which came with steamed pancakes, garnish, stir fried garlicky bean sprouts and a massive bowl of duck soup. 

The duck was nice but I enjoyed the bean sprouts the most. It had the most breath of wok and garlic I had tasted in a dish recently. I like garlic so much, I'm like the anti vampire. 

The soup is very tasty as well. There are pieces of tofu in the soup that actually filled me so much it left no room for the next dish.

I had thought that the noodles would equally have the breath of wok as the beansprouts but it was like another chef had cooked the noodles. It was a little too oily for my liking.

After dinner, we had some canned fruits, water chestnut sweet soup, lollies and prawn crackers from the all you can eat dessert bar. Before you get too excited, it is a very basic set up with limited desserts.

The restaurant was full and very noisy, some curtains or noise absorbing materials would help with conversations around the table. The seating arrangements were not the most comfortable for mid sized group because the place is quite small. We were seated along a corridor and in close proximity to the next table so the flurry of waiters carrying food from the kitchen and dirty dishes to the kitchen, and the conversations at the next table were quite distracting. It was not the experience I expected when paying close to $100 for a meal.