East Pearl is one of the very few Cantonese restaurants in Sichuan-saturated Rockville. Select from individual or combinations of soy sauce chicken, white-cut chicken, roast duck, and roast pork.

This restaurant from the former owners of Eat First in D.C.’s Chinatown offers three different types of duck, including a hard-to-find pei pa preparation. This method features a butterflied duck that is shaped into the form of a lute (pei pa), which allows more of the fat to drain as it is cooking, and yields a crispier skin than traditional roast duck. Order online here.

This diminutive restaurant in Wheaton offers char siu pork, soy sauce chicken, and roast duck by the quarter and half pound or atop rice. Combos combine pork and duck or all three options. Visitors should also get some warming congee for dinner or a savory breakfast the next morning.

Owner Andrew Quach and his family had big shoes to fill when they took over dim sum heavyweight Good Fortune. After rebranding and modernizing the interior, they carried on the legacy of serving rolling cart specials and other Cantonese fare. Find roast duck and ginger scallion chicken on the menu, in addition to marinated jellyfish and cuttlefish. 

With a chic interior design and an emphasis on cocktails that fold in medicinal Chinese ingredients, this Blagden Alley go-to from the group behind nearby bar Calico and the Fainting Goat on U Street is a little trendier than the rest of the restaurants on this map. Customer can find sticky-sweet char siu and crispy pork belly platters with pickled vegetables, ginger scallion sauce, and rice on the side, all available for dine-in (indoors or outdoors), takeout, or delivery via Caviar and Doordash.

Along with a number of standard Cantonese barbecue options, find deep fried squab, braised duck with taro, and roast baby pig at this dim sum spot in Falls Church.

Opened in 1986 by Frederick and Esther Mark, the restaurant best known for its dim sum has changed hands a few times over the years. Regulars will order some Cantonese barbecue to take home for a quick and easy dinner. Siu mei options extend from head to tail with spiced duck tongue, pig ears, and other offal. 

In 2019, XO Taste came under new ownership that added Thai items to the menu, but the Cantonese menu remains. Find roast pork, roast pig, soy sauce chicken, ginger scallion chicken, and roast duck, all available alone or served atop rice. Order takeout or delivery here.

One of three Full Kee restaurants around D.C. with separate ownership (there’s one in Chinatown, too), Full Kee in Falls Church offers a slightly different barbecue menu with ginger scallion chicken, soy sauce chicken, roast duck, roast pork, Peking duck, butterflied pei pa duck, and roast pig.