Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat?

Misfit

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http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/13300228/urine-soaked-eggs-a-spring-taste-treat-in-china-city/

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.

"If you eat this, you will not get heat stroke. These eggs cooked in urine are fragrant," said Ge Yaohua, 51, who owns one of the more popular "virgin boy eggs" stalls.
 

acommondisaster

Active Member
Having spent a month in China, and having seen how they transport and store things (ie raw meat being dumped out of the bucket it was transported in - on the back of a bike - straight onto the loading dock floor at hotels.) NOTHING they serve in China would surprise me.

And none of it could gross me out after having a 7 course meal at a state sponsored dinner that included what they translated as "pink pig penis". Granted, we eat cheese - which they think is weird, but I swear they have a thing for bizarre food.
 

struggler44

A Salute to all on Watch
Having spent a month in China, and having seen how they transport and store things (ie raw meat being dumped out of the bucket it was transported in - on the back of a bike - straight onto the loading dock floor at hotels.) NOTHING they serve in China would surprise me.

And none of it could gross me out after having a 7 course meal at a state sponsored dinner that included what they translated as "pink pig penis". Granted, we eat cheese - which they think is weird, but I swear they have a thing for bizarre food.

"Pink Pig Penis", that's bizarre in my book.......
 
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