Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat in China city
Mmmm. Yummmy. Seriously, WTF.
(Reuters) - It’s the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.
But that’s just the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents.
Basins and buckets of boys’ urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in “virgin boy eggs”, a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10.
There is no good explanation for why it has to be boys’ urine, just that it has been so for centuries.
The scent of these eggs being cooked in pots of urine is unmistakable as people pass the many street vendors in Dongyang who sell it, claiming it has remarkable health properties.
I love to eat eggs, prepared just about any way, but this is one thing I would not touch! What do they serve with the urine soaked eggs anyway? Poop-smeared bacon?
[quote]BobParr wrote:
I love to eat eggs, prepared just about any way, but this is one thing I would not touch! What do they serve with the urine soaked eggs anyway? Poop-smeared bacon?[/quote]
I live in Taiwan and have seen some wacky stuff. Chicken uterus on a stick! Whale’s penis!
I have long since stopped trying these sort of weird things. “Trying” to me means try the first time…and I’ve done that so no more for me.
The one thing I’ll say in some sort of small defense of why Asians eat such weird things is they think that if you eat pig’s intestines or bull testicles or fish eyes then that will help your intestines, testicles and eyes. Not true, but that’s why they seem to be able to eat more wacky stuff than others.
Though eggs in piss? Makes no fucking sense.
One neat thing is 7-11s here have a crock pot going with a pile of hard-boiled eggs in them that cost about 25 cents each. Thing is they’re cooked in tea so you get sick of them after a while. I haven’t bought one in ages.
Here’s a video I found:
Yet also I’ve never seen such long lines at McDonalds! I’m not kidding most lunch times and dinner times I’ll walk past one near my work and each register has 7 or 8 people lined up.
