Is the Century Egg really that gross?

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Yes it is. Though not to the degree of the other disgusting food in that slideshow. Mouse wine? Seriously? Just the picture makes me gag.

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I’m not an egg fan to begin with, but this is what puts it over the top for me. Tea eggs I can deal with. Century eggs, no way.

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This is far from the “grossest” thing a westerner could see.

Try balut, you know that egg with the duck embryo inside… and they sell those here too.

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Covid-20 in the making.

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Yummy egg with runny green yolk as a starter followed by chodofu.

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Isn’t it? It’s a controlled rotting process I thought.

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YUMMY!

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It doesn’t taste nearly as bad as it looks. It was … unmemorable. OTOH, on the one and only occasion I had one (I ate it all) I had a massive dose of the shits the next day. It probably wasn’t the egg, but it put me off trying it again.

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never liked century egg, it just looks gross. Doesnt taste that bad really with congee but still, its dracula food

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This. But I like it with tofu and dried pork. Can’t get past the smell of stinky tofu.

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You thought wrong. Rotting is the process of matter break down as the result of the action of bacteria and/or fungi. This is a more basic chemical process, the effect of peeing on eggs, and then boiling them in pee (in the disgusting case of the Chinese paraphilia someone posted hours ago).

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But fermenting is rotting in another name, right?

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I guess fermenting is rotting in some way…? TBH I don’t have a degree in food science or anything like that. I love fermented food like beer, yogurt, bread and similar.

Damn, today I’m fancying wine a lot xD

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Fun fact: yeasts are considered something between a bacteria and a fungus, or something that has characteristics of both. Need to get back to my brewing… mead and kombucha are easy enough.

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You’ve brewed mead?

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FIFY

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I was the owner of the most underground mead company in Taiwan a few years ago. So underground that only a few people know it haha. I made a few bucks harassing people into customers…

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speaking of fermented food… this one is pretty :tent: up too: