RE: OT - Chinese Ducks-was: Happy Holidays to All

[Alan Chan]

I think another reason that the name "Peking-duck" was called because most 
Chinese restaurants are opened and operated by Chinese people from Canton 
which is the very southern part of China. In China, we have different kinds 
of Chinese restaurants which are designated by the regions.

Yours regards,
Alan Chan
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Well, that's what I thought, too.  But a couple of posts back, Alan 
explained that "Peking" is in fact the Cantonese name for Beijing.  IIRC, 
most or many Chinese immigrants to North America (and probably Britain as 
well) were Cantonese speaking, so perhaps that's why we in the West adopted 
"Peking" as the name for the capital of China.

At least that's the case for Canada;  until recently the majority of 
Chinese-Canadians were Cantonese speaking.  I believe that they may still 
be in the majority, but of late more and more Mandarin speaking Chinese 
have been arriving.

cheers,
frank
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