Eight treasure duck (Chinese: 八寶鴨; pinyin: bābǎoyā; Jyutping: baat3 bou2 aap3'; Shanghainese: paq7-pau5-aq7, lit.
Its name derives from the fact that it is stuffed with eight other ingredients, including rice, mushrooms and shrimp.
The Cantonese version features a duck stuffed with eight stir-fried ingredients, including glutinous rice, diced mushrooms, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, bamboo shoots, jujubes, salted egg yolk, Jinhua ham, red beans, barley, dried lily, and peanuts.
[1] After the duck is stuffed, it is cooked in a chicken and soy broth for over an hour, which produces tender and succulent meat.
The dish is labor-intensive to prepare, and is typically ordered several days in advance in restaurants.