Thousand year old eggs

[Renard]

I ate a 'thousand year old' egg yesterday on the recommendation of a Chinese chap. A couple of the guys in a restaurant kitchen were about to have them for their breakfast and insisted I tried one. You could say they egged me on It was actually very nice. They are actually boiled eggs marinated in soy sauce and tea.

 

[Night Train]

Mmmmmmm,

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I don't know how it is possible, but you were misinformed. Possibly because though Chinese they didn't know what is what because the Chinese don't actually call Thousand Year Old Egg (which is a western invented name, just like chop suey is a western invented dish) that, they call it "Skin Egg".

From your description what you ate was Tea Egg, also called Marbled Egg here sometimes. I can assure you that Thousand Year Old Eggs / Skin Eggs are more, shall we say, an acquired taste.

I think they are both delicious.

 

[Red Light]

I can assure you that Thousand Year Old Eggs / Skin Eggs are more, shall we say, an acquired taste.

Agree. If it didn't have a dark blue black translucent "white" and dark yolk with a very strong sulphur taste and smell it wasn't a thousand year egg. Can't say I'm particularly fond of them but I'll eat them when I need to.

 

[Fnaar]

[quote="Red Light, post: 2051695, member: 15106" but I'll eat them when I need to.

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So that's once every 1,000 years, then?

 

[fossyant]

Agree. If it didn't have a dark blue black translucent "white" and dark yolk with a very strong sulphur taste and smell it wasn't a thousand year egg. Can't say I'm particularly fond of them but I'll eat them when I need to.

 

[tadpole]

Take a normal egg, wrap it in clay (made from crushed lime) and straw. Leave it in a straw box slowly cooking for 30 or 60 days, eat, and throw up.

 

[numbnuts]

I think our corner shop sells thousand year old eggs

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I thought this was going to be another thread about numb plums and saddles.

 

[Red Light]

but I'll eat them when I need to.

So that's once every 1,000 years, then?

Unfortunately more often. Etiquette dictates that you consume with a smile the food your host offers you and in the Far East you get offered them fairly often along with a range of other challenging foods.

 

[RaRa]

So that's once every 1,000 years, then?
Unfortunately more often. Etiquette dictates that you consume with a smile the food your host offers you .

I used this approach when eating pickled pigs intestines, fried chickens feet and duck embryo's as I was very aware to refuse to even try them was considered rude. I managed ok with the first two and actually they were fairly tastey but the duck embryo was not something I ever want to repeat as I felt so darn guilty looking at it and I'd imagine the look on my face as i tried to eat it was probably enough to signify my distaste anyway

 

[Red Light]

I used this approach when eating pickled pigs intestines, fried chickens feet and duck embryo's as I was very aware to refuse to even try them was considered rude. I managed ok with the first two and actually they were fairly tastey but the duck embryo was not something I ever want to repeat as I felt so darn guilty looking at it and I'd imagine the look on my face as i tried to eat it was probably enough to signify my distaste anyway

Fish semen is another challenging delicacy. But its not all Asian. Have you ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?

 

[oldfatfool]

Fish semen is another challenging delicacy. But its not all Asian. Have you ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?

Yes thanks, lovely on toast

 

[RaRa]

Fish semen is another challenging delicacy. But its not all Asian. Have you ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?

I'm afraid to even look at what they are!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Take a normal egg, wrap it in clay (made from crushed lime) and straw. Leave it in a straw box slowly cooking for 30 or 60 days, eat, and throw up.

Yet again, I have to wonder what sort of mentality made people think that eating it to begin with was a good idea, never mind actually think up doing that to an egg in the first place!

I can only imagine people must have been VERY bored centuries ago.