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Do You Love Century Egg?

iWalk 10 February 2009 32 Comments

Century egg(皮蛋 in Chinese) is a kind of tradional Chinese food. It has a lot of interesting English names such as century egg, hundred-year egg,Or thousand-year egg, Because foreigner think it should take long time to compelte the process of transforming.
But we call it pine-patterned egg, Do you notice the pine patterns in the white of the egg?

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Good century eggs have pine patterns in egg white.

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Century eggs is a kind of real yummy, It can be cooked as different dishes.

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You can buy century egg like this in supermarket.

According to the record, Century egg was accidentally discovered at YiYang, HuNan (湖南益阳) during Ming Dynasty. A duck lie an egg into some lime, The egg was found by a farmer two months later. People found it’s real yummy, So they started to make this kind of egg specially.

Century egg is also special local product of MianZhu. I still remember there were some people went to our uptown to help families make century eggs. They would put duck eggs in mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime and rice straw, After several months’ transforming processing, the yolk becomes dark green, while the albumen becomes brown transparent jelly with pine patterns.

My favorite cuisine is very simple: cut century egg into small pieces with a filament, then mix them together with green pepper pieces, Add some vinegar, Okay, That’s a famous SiChuan cuisine named “green pepper century egg”(青椒皮蛋).

In my home town at Southern Yangtze River, We love to mix the pieces of century egg and the pieces of soft silken Tofu together, Add some soy sauce and sesame oil, That’s my granny’s favorite “century egg tofu”(皮蛋豆腐).

GuangDong people love to cook them with rice and meat, That’s a kind of famous porridge named “Century egg and Lean Pork porridge” (皮蛋瘦肉粥), It’s a kind of dim sum served in many GuangDong restaurants.

Though century egg is definitely delicious, But the report said lead oxide is added to the mixture by some producers in order to increase the curing speed of century eggs before. though we all know that bad for health. Zinc oxide is used as a replacement Now. But the report said we still can’t eat too much because the century egg is a kind of high cholesterol food, people who has cardiovascular disease should eat as less as possible.

So if you have chance to try some centry egg, Don’t eat too much.

Tags: Century Egg, Chinese Food, food, Food Guide, GuangDong, MianZhu, SiChuan, Southern Yangtze River

32 Comments »

BK said:

Century egg is one of my favorites. But I don’t usually eat century egg; only have it like maybe once a few months so the cholesterol part should not be a problem for me. The other way which I like to eat century egg is when it is prepared in porridge as in the 皮蛋瘦肉粥.

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