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• downerending 7y ago
  Pretty bad. The white ends up amber and rather leathery. My Chinese friend won't eat them.
  • scruple 7y ago
    I don't like them either. My wife adds them to congee and I always fish out the black pieces when I make my bowl. There's just something about it that I can't get passed. It's a little bit goofy because there isn't much (pungent food) that I don't eat. I eat durian and love durian deserts and stinky tofu but I don't mess with these eggs, which are pretty tame comparatively.
• airstrike 7y ago
  That looks... absolutely disgusting, and I considered myself a fairly adventurous eater coming into this thread Read through the article and found that it's served along with "Head cheese" on special occasions, so I clicked on that only to find out I'm certainly not as adventurous as I thought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
  • rad_gruchalski 6y ago
    That head cheese thing is really delicious. It’s simply chunks of meat with veggie in a jelly. What can be disgusting about it? I do wonder though, when you say you consider yourself an adventurous eater, what are the things you’d eat to call yourself like that? Not trying to discredit anything, just generally curious.
• cnasc 7y ago
  The texture was more unusual to me than the taste was. I expected something more like a hard boiled egg, but it was very rubbery and didn’t yield to the teeth as easily.
• el_benhameen 7y ago
  A friend took me to a place in Beijing that does these with tofu, sesame oil, and soy sauce. It was delicious. Kind of nutty and cheesy, if I remember correctly. If you like strong/complex flavors, you might like these. Based on that experience, I found a place in San Diego that did them when I lived there. The egg was somewhere between uninteresting and bad. So I guess it really depends on who makes them and how they're prepared.
• fiblye 7y ago
  The taste reminded me of clay and the alkalinity made my throat somewhat uncomfortable. Not in a painful way, but like I swallowed some powdered soap. Dry, yet slippery. Not the worst thing I've eaten, but I've definitely never jumped at the chance to eat them again. Although my problem could've been eating them plain while it seems most people add some sauce or seasoning.
• lifeformed 7y ago
  They're delicious! In congee, or on cold tofu. It's creamy inside and firm outside. I think people might get grossed out because they are expecting something egg-like. I don't really think about them as eggs... they're just their own thing.