Monday, October 18, 2010

Roast Duck Anyone?

Go into any large Chinese community and you will find produce shops, restaurants/delis, etc. Specifically, restaurants/delis will display offerings in the window to all passerbys. The steaming hot table will keep things like sweet and sour pork, fried chicken, fried rice/chow fun, etc. warm. Hanging above will be barbecue pork, steamed chicken, and roast duck. These will all be very familiar sites of once has been to their local chinatown.


As such, while walking around my Chinatown, I spotted this in the window. A somewhat Warhol-esque display using the ubiquitous cooked foul. The first row has a black duck(Oil spill duck), a missing duck(What the duck), a black duck with strings painted on it to resemble a cello(Yo yo Ma duck), and a pink duck with a label over its privates(Garment label duck). The bottom row has the following: a multicolored gradient duck(Ranbow duck), a duck covered in paper money(Money duck), a duck covered in duct tape(Duck tape), and a red duck that mimics the flag of the Republic of China(Peking duck)

Apparently, there are more ducks at the artist's website.

Although the city has only one official Chinatown, there are many areas with large Chinese coomunities that have setup shops and restaurants. Some of the well know areas include blocks of Clement, Irving, and Noriega. Some burgeoning areas include San Bruno Ave in the 94134 zip code.