HOW CHINESE LIKE THEIR EGGS,
De. MALRGKOK, who has dwelt long in China, gives some curious details of the food of the Chinese. This isc what he says of the "Sons of Heaven" and the way they eat eggs— "The Chinese are great eaters of eggs, which they take hard boiled. One finds them in all the roadside places for refreshment. The Celestials have an expression— ' Eggs for 100 years.' The eggs ars not always a century old, but you are able to get them of many years' standing "The Celestials have a preference for the egg of the duck or goose. They are placed "with aromatic herbs in slaked lime for a period more or less long, the minimum time of treatment being five or six weeks. Under the influence of time the yolk liauefies and takes a dark green colour. The white coagulates and becomes green. "The product of the eggs which has a strong odour, from which a stranger betakes himself quickly, .the Chinese eat as hors d'eeuvre, and it is said to have the taste of lobster."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14148, 25 August 1909, Page 9
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181HOW CHINESE LIKE THEIR EGGS, New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14148, 25 August 1909, Page 9
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