🍽️ Gujing Roast Goose

Gujing roast goose, crispy and juicy.

Gujing Roast Goose is a traditional roast-meat specialty of Gujing Town in Xinhui, Jiangmen, Guangdong, among the finest of Cantonese roast goose. Local black-bristle geese are inflated, scalded, glazed with crisp-skin sugar syrup and hung over a charcoal fire. The skin comes out glossy red as glass, the meat juicy, the crackle crisp and richly fatty, traditionally dipped in sweet-sour plum sauce. Breed, charcoal heat and the glaze matter, and Xinhui roasters often use lychee wood, lending a faint fruit smoke. Jiangmen locals buy it by the slab from roast shops, and travelers seek out old Gujing shops for whole geese. Ranked alongside Guangzhou roast goose, it represents the best of the Pearl River Delta's western shore roast tradition.