Century Eggs, also known as Preserved Egg or Thousand-Year Egg, is considered a delicacy in China. They are prepared by taking fresh duck, chicken or quail eggs and preserving them for several weeks in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime and rice. The 600-year-old process is said to have been invented when someone came across a few old eggs in a pool of slaked lime. Instead of just tossing them out, they actually tasted the eggs and then made modifications to the recipe. And that’s how modern-day century eggs were born.
Virgin Eggs are eggs that soaked in the urine of young boys from the Zhejiang Province of China. In preparation of these special eggs, young boys are encouraged to ‘donate’ their urine, which is collected by vendors from elementary schools in various cities. So throughout the virgin egg season, boys are encouraged to pee in plastic buckets placed outside the classroom rather than in the toilet. Eggs are then boiled in all the collected urine, with shells cracked so that the flavor can seep through. It takes about a day for the eggs to be ready.
Balut is probably the most repulsive of the three dishes, going by its looks. it’s the fertilized embryo of a duck. The people of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam enjoy the dish and even consider it to be an aphrodisiac, a hearty snack, rich in proteins.
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