Pay a visit to Chinatown and you will see rows of glistening lacquered ducks hanging in shop windows, the perfect dish to serve on a day when you don't feel like cooking.

Tom and Hot Pie resumed their song on the other side of the brook, with the duck hanging from Lem's belt beneath his yellow cloak.

There are dead ducks and rabbits hanging on the wall panels, in bouquets of carrots, petunias and string beans.

Ollie's, at 2315 Broadway (84th Street), is a Cantonese restaurant that would look perfectly at home in Chinatown, with its dumpling makers at work in the front window, and its lacquered chicken, ducks and spareribs hanging from racks.

Flint strolled nonchalantly down the road, passing by the walled yard with scarcely a look, focusing instead on the ducks hanging so invitingly across the street in the butcher's window.

They passed an open-air shop with a row of skinned ducks hanging by their necks.

In one there was a bare camp-bed with no mattress or bedding; the only other furniture was a couple of dead ducks hanging by their feet from the roof.

Some sights are predictable: the roasted ducks hanging in the windows, for example, or the cars double-and triple-parked for lack of spaces.