Roast duck restaurant keeps stove burning nonstop for 143 years.

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A 143-year-old Beijing roast duck restaurant may be closing for renovations but it is not about to let its ovens go cold.
To maintain its tradition, the restaurant said it will keep embers from its wood-fired ovens burning during the six-month refurbishing job.
The oldest outlet of Quanjude Group of roast duck restaurants, on Qianmen Street in downtown Beijing, closed for business on Tuesday night.
A ceremony to preserve the oven fire, which the restaurant says has not been extinguished since it first opened in 1864, was conducted before the end of business at 8 PM on Tuesday.
According to the restaurant’s electronic board, the restaurant has served 115,330,259 ducks in over 140 years of service.
"The electric board will stop tracking the ducks, but the stove has been burning for about a century and a half, and the fire will never die out," Jiang Junxian, chairman of the board of Quanjude Group Co. Ltd. said.

Source (http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/04/roast-duck-restaurant-keeps-stove.html)

Bull. They even have to re-light the "eternal flame" at JFK's grave. What do they have smoldering in that Chinese fire pit - plutonium?

Just because the Chinese folks can make cheap & loud firecrackers for the 4th of July they think we'll buy into a story like this. And half the time I can't even get those fookin' communist firecrackers to stay lit and go off!

Woops, thought this said "dick."

yeah easy to say its been burning that long, no way to prove that shit

Fuck that.... Take a garden hose to that shit........

Hopefully they're burning old copies of the little red book.

love the roast duck. mmmm

i can see it Possibly goin that long cuz its indoors.. we have an eternal flame here in town like JFK's aswell however the WIND was the culprit of blowing it out a few times

I've actaully eaten at that restaraunt. Was travelling for work, and my hosts took me there.

Chinese have some strange ideas on food as it relates to health.

I had a bitch of a head cold going, so the whole meal turned into "what can we get him to eat to make him feel better"

Strangest thing they brought out was an appetizer of deep fried prawn chips, each with a deep fried baby scorpion resting on it. Didn't taste like anything, but they told me it would "help your constitution"

I remember them mentioning the fire, and that was about 10 years ago.