Eating China’s 1,000-Year-Old Egg

behold the century egg to an American this black egg it might look like a strange thing to put in your mouth then you may come a luminous I want me I want someone to bear with the horses their name is Sasha this great big story is inspired by Genesis the century egg aka the thousand-year-old egg the millennium egg are simply the black egg is a preserved egg that is considered a delicacy in China there are only a few people that continue to make them in the traditional way including this husband-and-wife pair is it a little nearly a century egg is created by mixing of tea quicklime salt and freshly burned wood ashes with water to create a mud like paste raw eggs are then covered in the paste rolled in rice husks so they don't stick together put in a vat and left to sit as the name suggests for a hundred years okay it just looks like they've been sitting for a hundred years Canada's secure killing this recipe fish imma get their peculiar Hatami aha kendama know I was the one that he is a hot day Leo show sure did while the origins of the dish are murky legends traced the creation back over five hundred years to the Ming Dynasty when a farmer discovered duck eggs lying naturally preserved in a muddy pool of water today the century egg is often eaten during special occasions as a woman if I hadn't penguin joke Anita see on your way with Amma of course not everyone is a fan at first what's it say what's the thing I think that's a boss but for the millions and millions who love to eat century eggs Buckelew NRT son plan to keep on making them what was in the air with that so the domain you are so sure because there anywhere causing those to be there [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

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Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, century egg, pickled egg, egg, eggs, chicken egg, duck egg, quail egg, Ming Dynasty, Changlong Village, China, yolk, food technique, tasty, delicacy, New Releases, Flavors, Food & Drink, food, hyundai

Id: QioE9vAwxis

Length: 2min 21sec (141 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 14 2020