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  veggie asia - thousand-year-old egg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
"thousand-year-old eggs" are actually duck eggs that have been preserved for a period of a few months (no not 1000 years) in a way that makes them turn fl and aquire a rather unique flavor.
these eggs actually don't have to be cooked before serving -- they can simply be peeled and used raw in some dishes.
perhaps the two most common dishes that include "thousand-year-old eggs" are thousand-year-old egg congee and thousand-year-old egg with tofu.
www.geocities.com /emaildaneng/pidan.html   (76 words)

  
 Ch03
When the eggs are completely coated, roll them over rice hulls, and place them one by one in a porcelain jar, which should then be tightly sealed with a mixture of yellow mud and a little table salt.
The eggs are first immersed in the fluid mixture for 25 days, after which the fluid is drained off and the vessel is sealed with a plastic membrane.
Analysis of the ordinary nutrients in pidan and in fresh eggs, as compared in table l, shows that the two are quite similar except that pidan have a higher protein content and less carbohydrate.
www.unu.edu /unupress/food/8F032e/8F032E03.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Deep End Dining: Green Eggs Sans Ham. Thousand Year-Old Egg - Sam Woo BBQ. Van Nuys, CA.
There would be four one-thousand year-old eggs already peeled (note: there is no such thing as four-thousand year-old eggs…yet), their ashen shells, speckled haphazardly with tiny dark spots, lay in spiral swaths on the butcher block.
Thousand year-old egg is one of the strange foods in my life that went hand in hand with my active childhood imagination.
I was going to suggest eating the thousand year old egg with tofu, and then you gave the recipe for the "salad." I never thought of it as a salad before.
deependdining.blogspot.com /2005/05/green-eggs-sans-ham-thousand-year-old.html   (2317 words)

  
 Asian Recipes Online - Kitchen Review - The role of preserved eggs in the Asian kitchen
Both types of preserved eggs are made by a similar method; it is the material used in the process that are different.
At this stage the eggs are packed into an earthenware urn, which is tightly sealed and stored in a cool, dark place for one to two months.
The whites and yolks of the thousand-year-old eggs will have solidified, so all that is required is to carefully remove the shell before cutting the eggs into quarters or eights for serving.
www.asianrecipesonline.com /review/preserved-eggs.php   (479 words)

  
 RecipeSource: Preserved Duck Eggs (thousand Year Old Eggs)
To remove coating, scrape eggs and rinse under running water to clean thoroughly.
The white of the egg will appear a grayish, translucent color and have a gelatinous texture.
Preserved Ancient Eggs These are often called thousand-year eggs, even though the preserving process lasts only 100 days.
www.recipesource.com /ethnic/asia/chinese/preserved-duck-eggs1.html   (308 words)

  
 Tiny, speckled, or packed in mud … the unusual eggs - recipes Sunset - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Thousand-year-old eggs are considerably younger than their name, though they do look as if they've been around for quite a while.
Raw eggs in the shell are coated with clay, dry lime (calcium oxide), and rice husks, then buried in earth-filled clay pots for 90 days.
The coating preserves the egg as the yolk firms and the white gels.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n5_v184/ai_9035831   (962 words)

  
 Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 9 part 3] Pests Attacking Mand and His Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The smooth, oval or rounded, light-colored eggs (figure 303, C), about 0.5 mm long, are deposited on, but not firmly attached to, the body, the bedding, or the nest of the host.
The spherical eggs, approximately 0.1 to 0.2 mm in diameter, are usually laid in the soil.
It is difficult to determine the number of eggs laid by a female in her lifetime, but it is usually estimated to be between 40 and 50.
www.insects.ucr.edu /ebeling/ebel9-3.html   (19692 words)

  
 Cuisine Paradise: Fish & Century Egg Soup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The century egg, also known as preserved egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg; or in Chinese call 皮蛋 or 松花蛋.
It is a Chinese food made by preserving duck or chicken eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime and rice straw for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.
Before you serve, add in the fish slices and bring to boil for a few minutes until cooked through then sprinkler some chopped coriander leaves and season with salt to taste.
ellenaguan.blogspot.com /2006/05/fish-century-egg-soup.html   (416 words)

  
 Thousand Year Old Eggs
Besides, Thousand Year Old Eggs are a delicacy," Chon replied in serious tones.
She had laughed gently at his question but when she realized how serious Roy was, she apologized and immediately gave him the recipe but explained it would be very hard to make because the recipe required a fresh lime and rice wine, neither one a common commodity in the west.
Once he had a nice pasty consistency, he covered the eggs in the paste then buried them under fresh soil in a crock and stashed it an abandoned mine shaft a mile or so outside of town.
www.sockiipress.org /shanghai/thousand.html   (1359 words)

  
 BRUCE CHATWIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nicholas Shakespeare was eight years researching and writing this superb biography, which took him to those places to which Chatwin had travelled, and for which he has extensively interviewed family and friends.
One of my aims was to be as objective as possible about someone I had counted as a friend and admired as a writer.
They can't understand the relationship." I next interviewed Meriel McCooey, who also had witnessed the event and she remembered it like this: "We were going up to the Old Chop House for lunch, and Bruce decided to join us and Elizabeth turned up.
weecheng.com /latin/chatwin.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Keith Famie's Adventures
Aside from numerous attempts made by market merchants luring me to sip snake-wine and nibble on a "thousand-year-old" egg, my memories of the once war torn country are fond.
Kevin Hewiit my Video photographer and I made so many new friends and learned so much about this place that is thousands of years old.
As we sat on the plane flying back some 25 hours of travel to Detroit it seemed sad in a way that we would air the 25 five hours of footage in a short one hour show and that would be it.
www.famie.com /vietnam.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Suburban Tasteland: Taiwanese Burger in Paradise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Linguine-style flat noodles were mixed with a spicy ground pork sauce, more fatty pork, bean sprouts, chives, and a “marinated egg,” which reminded us of the Thousand Year Old Egg we’ve had at other Chinese restaurants.
The Thousand Year Old Egg is pickled and has a bit of tartness, while this egg tasted like a regular hard-boiled egg with only a hint of spice.
Those thousand year old eggs are not for me. I always used to have to pluck them out of my mooncakes.
editorandpunisher.typepad.com /suburban_tasteland/2006/03/fatty_pork_pig_.html   (903 words)

  
 following an unknown path: congee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This one here is with "flowered egg" and chicken; well, as you can tell it also had veggies in it too.
I really like this kind of "joe." It is much better than plain white "joe." When I had food poisoning--about a year ago--all I ate for three days was white "joe." So, "joe" has a very fond spot in my heart.
(Thousand year old eggs are the only thing I have eaten in Asia that I refuse to put into my mouth again, including stinky tofu.
amanda47.blogs.com /following_an_unknown_path/2006/04/congee.html   (485 words)

  
 Wok Wiz - Restaurant Recommendations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Among those specially named for the new year: Success Everywhere (stir-fried scallops, prawns and garden greens), A Field of Gold Coins (vegetables with braised shiitake mushrooms as the coins) and Happy Family (jumbo prawns with candied walnuts).
Funky rather than fancy, "this is a 'get down and eat' place." The Cantonese food, served family style, is "comfortable and cozy," with lots of noodle dishes and great seafood.
Rice congee (in which the grain is cooked for hours, becoming mushy) is topped with fish filet, thousand-year-old egg and pork, abalone or chicken, "and it's only $3 to $5 a bowl.
www.wokwiz.com /restaurants   (821 words)

  
 musician's best albums of the year
In December of every year, we hold a poll asking triple j listeners to vote for their favourite albums of the year.
Some call it tech house but for me it's pure old school techno, suitable for that time in your house party when you've decided to destroy your mind and then all your worldly possessions.
To me there is a real old time rock and roll aspect to him that can be really cheesy, but I think he put a lot more thought into these songs than some of his previous stuff.
www.abc.net.au /triplej/2005/musicians_best_albums.htm   (7197 words)

  
 eG Forums -> congee--trying it out, recipes?
We often had it with sides like hard-boiled salted duck egg (split lenghtwise and scooped out piecemeal with eating spoon), dry-fried salt anchovies (ikan bilis) and chye poh omelette (gold fried sheets of omelette embedded with bits of chopped preserved salt-sweet vegetable).
She also makes a much thicker omelette-like (more fritatta-like, really) concoction with scrambled eggs and pickled vegetables as an "emergency" main dish, but it's much too thick to be characterized as a "sheet".
Add 3 to 4 eggs that have been whisked together with a some salt and pinch of pepper and scramble until eggs are cooked and slightly brown.
forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=21181   (3733 words)

  
 Eating China - Eating Taiwan: Taiwanese Food
It would not have been difficult for the early settlers to replicate their native food ways in their new home.
The Japanese during their fifty year occupation turned Taiwan into a major food supplier to Japan as well as off-loading a considerable amount of their own foodstuffs and eating habits onto Taiwan.
Taiwan Snacks (xiao chi) Taiwanese are great snackers as a visit to one of the island's ubiquitous 7-11 convenience stores will show.
www.eatingchina.com /articles/taiwanfood.html   (1429 words)

  
 Thousand Year Old Eggs :: mike.whybark.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To remove coating, scrape eggs andrinse under running water to clean thoroughly.
The white of the egg willappear a grayish, translucent color and have agelatinous texture.
These are often called thousand-year eggs, eventhough the preserving process lasts only 100 days.They may be purchased individually in Oriental markets.
mike.whybark.com /archives/001501.html   (366 words)

  
 Singapore recipes - Sambal Blacan Cookbook
It is tender and contains a lot of water used often in stir fry, soup and in kim chi by the Koreans.
A preserved duck egg covered in rice husks and mud, the york and white turn to a greenish fl and has a peculiar taste.
Eaten as it is with preserved young ginger slices, or in various dishes.
www.makantime.com /cookbook/c.htm   (908 words)

  
 salty duck eggs - Yellowworld Forums
Scatter chopped preserved egg and salted egg yolk on the bottom on a heat-proof dish (approx.
Add water, salt and white pepper and stir to blend (the custard should not be foamy).
In "A View from the Top," w/ Gweneth Paltrow, she characterized her predicament of being stationed in Cleveland, Ohio as being stuck in a "huge waiting room" - akin to one at a dentist's office - awaiting her turn to be seen.
forums.yellowworld.org /showthread.php?t=9905   (724 words)

  
 88A-10 Volatile compounds in thousand-year-old eggs
Thousand-year-old eggs (pidans) are processed duck eggs, preserved in alkaline muddy paste or pickling solution.
The objectives of this research were to determine and to compare the volatile compounds in the two portions of pidan.
Hydrogen sulfide and acetaldehyde, which were key precursors of flavour contributing sulfur-containing compounds, were found in both pidans and cooked duck eggs in the present study and a previous one.
ift.confex.com /ift/2001/techprogram/paper_7995.htm   (321 words)

  
 Asian Food Pix by MakanTime.com - Asian Ingredient Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Traditionally covered in rice husks and mud, the duck egg is preserved with salt, alkaline, lime and a tiny amount of metalic oxide(traditionally harmful lead was used but has been replaced with copper or zinc).
The best way to eat this delicious egg is to serve it with preserved young ginger slices.
Burmese Century egg is golden in colour and most lovely to look at, but it lacks the taste and flavour of the traditional Chinese century egg.
www.makantime.com /ingredientguide/e.htm   (192 words)

  
 baglieg: 料理の鉄人
In retaliation for this heinous act of culinary piracy and anus-clenching thrift**, Iron Chef Hungary waited until next March to steal Captain Nemo's Seca, by which means travelling back in time to secrete dead ants in the honey for their marinade before the battle even began.
This took the entire hour to prepare and cook; in a moment of inspired inspirational inspiration, any leftover milk, egg, sultanas and blueberry syrup from this recipe that didn't physically fit into the dish were incorporated into the main course.
**As it turns out, discounted eggs are not a bargain, perticularly not when several in the carton have a faint discolouration around hairline cracks in their shells.
baglieg.livejournal.com /114368.html   (838 words)

  
 eG Forums -> congee--trying it out, recipes?
i never used to like the pork and thousand year egg jook when i was a kid.
When we make it, we put about two or three cups of rinsed, uncooked rice in the crockpot, any other desired foodstuffs, and fill to within one to two inches short of the top.
I love preserved eggs (pei tan) with lots of pickled young ginger slices - but that may be a bit much for the uninitiated.
forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=21181&st=30   (2675 words)

  
 Untitled
On this preparation, duck eggs are soaked in a special chemical solution for several days.
This turns the white of the egg green and the yolk fl.
In the old times, the 'chemical' used to soak the eggs was horse urine.
www.cba.uh.edu /peixoto/travel/travel4.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Neo-China Restaurant
Rice Porridge / 皮 蛋 粥 — Rice porridge seasoned with pork and thousand year old egg (preserved egg- not old).
Pork Turnover / 咸 水 角 — Ground pork seasoned with fl mushrooms and Asian spices wrapped in a rice dough and fried to a crisp.
Egg Custard Tart / 蛋 塔 — Warm oven-baked velvety smooth and sweet egg custard in flaky pastry tart shell.
www.neo-china.com /cary/neo_dimsum.htm   (1629 words)

  
 Forums - Read Message | TrekEarth
lemon_logix was right, they are raw salted duck eggs.
Thousand year old have the consistency of a hard-boiled egg, but have a semi-transparent fl "white" part.
You can't eat a thousand year old egg by itself (well I guess you could if you want bad breath for *ahm* a thousand years), so most people put it in rice porridge (xi-fan).
www.trekearth.com /read.php?f=2&t=5993&m=15952   (91 words)

  
 Cowoneone Entertainment :: Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I am very happy because I have never made a show that has gripped the public like this and motivate society." Bowie goes on to suggest that the producer should film a prequel to the show and laughs that this should tell of Gigi's romances when she was 24.
Her signature dish is Pork and Thousand Year Old Egg Congee, simmering on a slow flame that brings out the lovely flavour as well as memories of times and places gone by.
However, having just turned 20 years old, Fiona was about to embark on a new chapter in her life that she had never dreamed about: "If I was still in Germany, my life would not be like this.
www.forums.cowoneone.com /portal.php?news=archives&year=2004&month=9&day=20   (5255 words)

  
 Metroblogging DC: Penang Factor!
"It's an egg!" I had always assumed that thousand-year-old eggs were myths that ignorant white people came up with about Asian cuisine.
I took a bite and chewed, but I couldn't purge the thought of that egg from my mind, so I gagged.
I tried not to stare as he ate his slowly melting dessert, with all those multi-colored bits of...
dc.metblogs.com /archives/2005/04/penang_factor.phtml   (572 words)

  
 WHC Haiku Forum Vietnam Rumination D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
One of their favorite delicacies is the Thousand Year Old Egg.
It is a nearly mature duck egg that has been buried in the ground for a long time, then dug up.
The only one I don't like is the thousand year old egg.
www.worldhaikureview.org /1-1/whchaikuforum6.shtml   (412 words)

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