Superb, even better than the Gressingham.
Superb, even better than the Gressingham.
Average but edible
The skin of the duck is quite tasty. Unfortunately the meat underneath is lacking in the flavour you’d expect from Peking duck. The pancakes are wheat based rather than rice and the sauce is a pale, watery imitation of what you’d expect from hoisin sauce. Mixed together with the spring onions and cucumber (which you need to buy separately) it’s not too bad but honestly they are nicer options out there than this one.
Don't consider it, buy British
When ordering this online I was thinking this was the delicious fresh version Tesco sell in store. This frozen version is so dry it's almost inedible. A tiny amount of dry meat, and much my horror...it comes from Thailand! Imagine the welfare standards!
Neither crispy nor aromatic
The duck came from Thailand and obviously didn't travel well: no flavour at all, floppy skin and meat with a texture more akin to Michelin than Mallard. Don't try to separate the meat with two forks, as suggested - you'd probably do better with a chainsaw. And you have to supply your own spring onions, as the miniscule wording buried on the back of the pack states. OK to make a change (the Hoisin sauce is divine) but don't expect too much.
Worst crispy duck ever
Was really looking forward to trying this dish, I have never eaten a worse tasting crispy duck, the meat was tough and nowhere near as much or as good as a gressingham crispy duck, the sauce was thin and watery and quite tasteless, I would very much advise against purchasing this item, absolutely terrible.
Tough meat,the Hoisin sauce did not taste as it sh
Tough meat,the Hoisin sauce did not taste as it should ,much lighter in colour.Cooked as per instructions.
It's crispy, duckie :-)
This was very tasty. Others have said it's fatty but duck skin is fatty! A properly hot oven for at least the recommended time renders the skin well crispy. There's plenty of lean meat and, with the addition of shredded spring onions and cucumber as traditionally served, there's plenty enough for 4 as a starter (anyone who imagines 530g of any one product would feed 4 on its own as a main meal surely must be portion control-challenged). Cooked as instructed, our duck had crispy skin and well-flavoured, succulent meat. Our pancakes didn't stick to each other and the hoisin sauce was enough to impart sweet pluminess without overpowering all the other stuff in the pancake; you could slather more on but we like to taste the meat, spring onions and cucumber too. We enjoyed this and we'll buy it again :-)
Same price - less product!
Quality OK but object to yet another reduction in size but not price! Be aware that every time Tesco (and other companies) temporarily removes a product from the shelf, it returns at the same price but smaller in size.
A DON’T BUY ALERT
The worst crispy duck meal set I have ever tasted… tasteless duck and the hoisin sauce is all types of wrong and I was so looking forward to it….SO SO SO DISAPPOINTING!!
Delicious
I've never left a review about anything before, but had to, after seeing all the negative reviews for this product. I LOVE crispy duck, used to work in Soho, and ate it at least weekly. This product is fantastic; admittedly, other supermarkets include cucumber and spring onion in their non-frozen ducks, but that doesn't really detract. It's also essentially a starter, so I tend to get all the pancakes filled, but you wouldn't be serving this up as a main course. (If you buy it with a view to feeding 4 people with nothing else, then yes, you'll probably be disappointed.) I buy this weekly from Tesco, and am never disappointed.