Tag Archive 'eggs'

Dumping Festival & The mystery of the standing eggs

Today (8th Jun) Chinese is celebrating a very special occasion, it call dumping or Duan Wu Jie in mandarin. I have forgotten how the history comes to dumping, but according to children story there was this special poet in Chinese history that lost in the river. Worrying for his remains eaten by sea creatures the [...]

Century egg

I have given you salted eggs from my previous post. Now, it’s time for another type of egg! It’s call Century egg.

This egg is special. it’s almost black in color and almost transparent. If you find the color tasteless, you maybe right! I never like Century egg and I can’t find the reason why should [...]

Salted duck egg

Salted duck egg was my favorite and it reminds me how hard my dad work to support nine of us until his last breath. Every bit and pieces of this salty duck egg has it own story of hardship.
Never the less, salted duck egg could be one of the best preserved food products in Chinese [...]