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331 North Bridge Road, 01-02 & 01-05/08, Odeon Towers Tel: 6887-0010 Open: 11.30am to 2.30pm (Mondays to Saturdays), 10am to 2.30pm (Sundays and public holidays), 6.30 to 10.30pm (daily)

You have to order the eight-treasure duck ($65), an old-fashioned but excellent dish, two days in advance at this restaurant. But it is worth the wait.

Apparently, the bird has to be marinated for a day and some of the ingredients like lotus seeds and chestnuts have to be precooked.

The duck is blanched whole in hot oil before it is stuffed with the eight treasures – lotus seeds, chestnuts, mushrooms, dried scallops, Jinhua ham, salted duck egg yolk, diced pork and chicken meat – hence its name. It is then steamed for about four hours.

The end product is a bird so tender that you can tear it apart easily with chopsticks. Take a little of the juicy meat and eat it with some of the generous filling that has turned soft from the long cooking process.

The saltiness of the Chinese ham and salted duck egg yolk complement the chestnuts and lotus perfectly.

As it is a solid, heavy dish that can fill you up easily, go in a decent-sized group if you want to enjoy the other yummy Cantonese classics at this restaurant.

It moved to its new location from Asia Hotel in Scotts Road on Sept 1 and is now at the street-front unit in Odeon Towers that was formerly Chef Chan’s restaurant.