Lettuce Wraps

During nine-course banquets, the meat leftover from Peking duck is minced and stir-fried with aromatics, finely chopped vegetables, and fresh lettuce leaves to make this second dish—a great way to maximize expensive ingredients. The minced mushroom filling in my interpretation of this dish is so good that even without the water chestnuts and puffed vermicelli it reminds me of something my dad used to cook for us as an easy weeknight meal: minced beef fried with onion piled on top of a mound