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butter • minced shallot, or onion • Just one minced or crushed garlic clove, seriously one. It’s not a garlicky dish • raw oysters with juice, live or canned. If you shuck live oysters, shuck as many as needed to reach a pint of volume, keeping all the liquor. Could be 2 dozen or more. I shuck over a bowl • whole milk • Salt, black pepper • Crystal, Tabasco, Louisiana or other plain hot sauce with vinegar base

whole duck of greater than 5lbs, Asian markets are usually the best deal. Fresh or frozen but raw • Spice powder • whole star anise • Kosher salt • Ground black peppercorns and some whole ones, optionally a few Szechuan peppercorns • Sesame oil • Soy sauce, any kind • Chinese cooking wine, any kind and color • Rice wine vinegar, any kind