Duck Atrocity

It must surely say something (I have no idea what) about East/West differences in culinary thought, that the Chinese cut up a duck the way they do. Bonelessness is an alien idea (skinlessness is anathema) - they just hack the thing cross-wise. So upon ordering the celebrated Chao Chow Duck from New Chao Chow (111 Mott, between Hester and Canal) one is presented with a dish of bite-sized duck pieces that one can't reasonably bite. Very tasty, but yielding about two tablespoons of edible meat all together, and setting unsuspecting diners up for the possibility of bone splinters... ouch.