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To find something almost as popular as a duck’s neck, we just have to move up to its end. For the most pointless food ever look no further than duck’s heads. The only thing vaguely edible about them is the skin; the rest is just cartilage and bone, but many Chinese like little better than gnawing on the inedible.

Uncooked Duck Heads

The heads, stewed in a mix of 30 Chinese herbs and barley rice, are only outsold by the duck necks at 久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā), a successful retailer of cooked poultry viscera and offal with branches (and copycats) across China’s major cities. They are also stir fried with spices as a popular beer food. Heads are especially popular in Shanghai.

久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā) - Image by N509FZ, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Duck heads with necks.

Image by Ben Stephenson, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2/0 Generic license.

To find something almost as popular as a duck’s neck, we just have to move up to its end. For the most pointless food ever look no further than duck’s heads. The only thing vaguely edible about them is the skin; the rest is just cartilage and bone, but many Chinese like little better than gnawing on the inedible.

Uncooked Duck Heads

The heads, stewed in a mix of 30 Chinese herbs and barley rice, are only outsold by the duck necks at 久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā), a successful retailer of cooked poultry viscera and offal with branches (and copycats) across China’s major cities. They are also stir fried with spices as a popular beer food. Heads are especially popular in Shanghai.

久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā) - Image by N509FZ, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Duck heads with necks.

Image by Ben Stephenson, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2/0 Generic license.

To find something almost as popular as a duck’s neck, we just have to move up to its end. For the most pointless food ever look no further than duck’s heads. The only thing vaguely edible about them is the skin; the rest is just cartilage and bone, but many Chinese like little better than gnawing on the inedible.

Uncooked Duck Heads

The heads, stewed in a mix of 30 Chinese herbs and barley rice, are only outsold by the duck necks at 久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā), a successful Shanghai based retailer of cooked poultry viscera and offal with branches (and copycats) across China’s major cities. They are also stir fried with spices as a popular beer food. Heads are especially popular in Shanghai.

久久鸭 (jiǔ jiǔ yā) - Image by N509FZ, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Duck heads with necks.

Image by Ben Stephenson, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2/0 Generic license.