Century Eggs
I believe most of you has saw this egg, on in internet or somewhere- at least once in your life. As you may see, it looks bizarre, and the colors are weird looking-translucent black. If you are Asian and into chinese foods, it usually came as toppings for porridge.
Century eggs are made of fermented duck/chicken eggs, people burry the eggs inside a rice hulls, clay, ashes, salt, and others herbs. And then they leave it for weeks until months till it changes color. They white parts then becomes black, translucent, jelly like... and the yellow parts turn grayish.
So yeah, that's basically the origin of the name, "century eggs", because they look like they're 100 years old. You know when people sometimes complain about leaving the food for too long and it turn brownish, grayish, ugly? That basically is.
Despite the look, it doesn't taste that bad (?) It has some sweetness with strong sourness and the smell of sulphur gonna get into your nose and throat every time you chew it. It tastes quite good, but it is VERY smelly (in my opinion). But maybe we're built different, and we live only once! So why not being adventurous and give it at try!
Oh wow, they look abosutlely awful! I would never eat one...
ReplyDeleteomg i love these, my mom used to make what she call triple eggs combo steam egg, basically its an steam egg toped with century eggs, salted eggs
ReplyDeleteit amazes me how chemistry could change the color and texture of eggs just by covering them in clay n such :D
ReplyDeleteye, you should have went to chemistry for university bro :(
Deleteoh it's this egg...seems like a tons of hassle to make but I’d love to try it
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