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I did not cel­e­brate my birth­day this year and the year before and the year before and the… I have never cel­e­brated my birth­day in a spe­cial way.

My mum use to boiled 2 red eggs with a fried chicken wing or drum for me every year when I was small. As I grew up, I guess I work too hard and travel too hard that the yearly rit­ual with red eggs stop for 13 years! I requested my mom to do it for me this year and I am grate­ful my mom still able to do that for me.

I like to thank all my friends and fam­ily who wishes me on my birth­day. Only one word to describe you guys, AWESOME!

Love

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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 vil­lages threw some sort of dumpling into the river so the sea crea­tures will not harm his remains!

What’s a story! Okay, please don’t lis­ten to me I may get the story wrong

But one thing for sure, after cen­tury of dump­ing foods onto the river and still the remains of this so call “spe­cial” was never to be found and that’s when we mod­ern folk decided to dump into our stom­ach instead! ROFL!

I’m sure you’ll love it!

The next most excit­ing story would be the stand­ing eggs ROFL! Have you tried it your­self? To stand an egg thus “stand­ing egg”? hot? Excited? Let watch the next video just taken this after­noon… may look intrigu­ing

So what do you think? I was actu­ally amazed by it. There’s in fact no secret to how you can stand an egg! On a not so spe­cial occa­sion to stand an egg needs skill and you can make it hap­pen. If you want to make it stand with­out even a trial run than you would want to does it sharp at 12noon on Dump­ing Fes­ti­val day. For some of you in other part of the world, you can try it on the very first day of spring or maybe autumn!

In the name of sci­ence, the rea­son of why an egg stand­ing is because our sur­face are point­ing directly at the sun on these day. Of cause grav­ity plays impor­tant roles in your stand­ing eggs too

I hope you will enjoy your next stand­ing eggs and have a good day, god bless!

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

Cen­tury Eggs

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 I love it. You prob­a­bly won’t like it too

Dur­ing my photo tak­ing ses­sion, I tried one slice, pre­tend­ing I love it and know how to appre­ci­ate it. I have to! Other wise the restau­rant work­ers would think that I’m mad tak­ing photo of the eggs but won’t eat it.

I harm my appetite dur­ing the mak­ing of this post.

Por­ridge with Cen­tury Eggs

Good night all

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 history.

Salted Egg

Yummy Salted Egg