🍽️ Gujing Roast Goose

Roast goose from Gujing, crispy skin and juicy meat.

Gujing roast goose comes from Gujing town in Xinhui, Jiangmen, and ranks alongside Shenjing roast goose as one of the great schools of Cantonese roast goose. It uses local black-man geese, which are plumped, scalded, glazed with sugar syrup and hung in a charcoal roaster. The traditional fuel is lychee wood, whose gentle, long-lasting heat produces a date-red, glass-crisp skin that cracks audibly under the knife, while subcutaneous fat has rendered into a thin oil and the meat stays juicy with a faint lychee-wood aroma. Sliced goose is usually dipped in plum sauce, whose tartness cuts the richness. Gujing locals treat roast goose as a banquet and festival centerpiece and commonly pack it for sale elsewhere. Its crisp skin, tender meat and abundant juice make it a most representative taste of Cantonese roasted meats and a must-try souvenir of Xinhui.