Peking-Style Duck Pancakes

Duck

• 60 oz water
• 6 oz honey
• 1 tbsp Sichuan pepper
• 4 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 oz ginger, cut into pieces
• 1 oz tamari sauce
• 1 fresh mandarin orange, thin peel only, no pith
• 1 duck, head/neck, wings and feet trimmed (approx. 4-5 lb)
• 1 - 2 tsp Chinese five spice

Pancakes

• 25 ½ oz water, divided
• 9 oz all-purpose flour, plus extra to dust
• ⅛ tsp salt
• sesame oil, to brush
• sweet plum sauce, to serve
• 1 English cucumber, thinly sliced in matchsticks (2 in.)
• 8 green onions, thinly sliced in matchsticks (2 in.)