Chinese Delicacy: Eggs Cooked in Virgin Piss

[Supreme American]

Urine-soaked 'virgin boy eggs' are a springtime taste treat in China (http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/29/10922289-urine-soaked-virgin-boy-eggs-are-a-springtime-taste-treat-in-china)

DONGYANG, China - Officials in China have listed a local food delicacy of eggs soaked in boys' urine as part of the region's intangible cultural heritage.

Every spring, street vendors in the city of Dongyang sell 'virgin boy eggs' as a unique snack.

Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. Eggs are then soaked and cooked in the urine.


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.

"They are good for your health. Our family has them for every meal. In Dongyang, every family likes eating them."

It takes nearly an entire day to make these unique eggs, starting off by soaking and then boiling raw eggs in a pot of urine. After that, the shells of the hard-boiled eggs are cracked and they continue to simmer in urine for hours.

Vendors have to keep pouring urine into the pot and controlling the fire to keep the eggs from being overheated and overcooked.

Ge said he has been making the snack, popular due to its fresh and salty taste, for more than 20 years. Each egg goes for 1.50 yuan ($0.24), a little more than twice the price of the regular eggs he also sells.

Many Dongyang residents, young and old, said they believed in the tradition passed on by their ancestors that the eggs decrease body heat, promote better blood circulation and just generally reinvigorate the body.

"By eating these eggs, we will not have any pain in our waists, legs and joints. Also, you will have more energy when you work," said Li Yangzhen, 59, who bought 20 eggs from Ge.

The eggs are not bought only at street stalls. Local residents are also known to personally collect boys' urine from nearby schools to cook the delicacy in their homes.

The popularity of the treat has led the local government to list the "virgin boy eggs" as an intangible cultural heritage.

But not everyone is a fan. Chinese medical experts gave mixed reviews about the health benefits of the practice, with some warning about sanitary issues surrounding the use of urine to cook the eggs.

Some Dongyang residents also said they hated the eggs.

"We have this tradition in Dongyang that these eggs are good for our health and that it would help prevent things like getting a cold," said Wang Junxing, 38. "I don't believe in all this, so I do not eat them."

[Loddfafner]

The traditional recipe for thousand year old eggs originally required lengthy marination in horsepiss. I try to avoid chinese food when I can.

[Supreme American]

The traditional recipe for thousand year old eggs originally required lengthy marination in horsepiss. I try to avoid chinese food when I can.

Asian food in the West is what I call novelty food. It's only Asian to what degree it doesn't offend the Western moral values and tastes. In other words, we're getting trappings of Asian food, nowhere near the real thing.

[arcticwolf]

Gross!

[Siegfried]

Mmmm....yummy! I can't wait to try some!

[Kazimiera]

The traditional recipe for thousand year old eggs originally required lengthy marination in horsepiss. I try to avoid chinese food when I can.

I thought they were buried in the sand for a number of weeks.

[Midori]

Ewww...

[Hurrem sultana]

omg...this beats the rats

[Kazimiera]

What I want to know is who comes up with this. I mean, this takes some thought.

Who sits there and goes "I wonder what will happen if I boil this egg in pee?"

[arcticwolf]

What I want to know is who comes up with this. I mean, this takes some thought.

Who sits there and goes "I wonder what will happen if I boil this egg in pee?"

Apparently Chinese do. :D

[Albion]

Try the recipe where they get a developing duck egg and eat it and the foetus inside!!! They actually eat these in Vietnam. :bullet puke

Warning: Very disgusting.

http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/balut.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nL03NYaY4CY/TbRDq_d7GUI/AAAAAAAACII/T4RuKNBWcAk/s1600/balut.jpg
http://www.uglyfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/balut_duck_egg.jpg

[Padre Organtino]

I like them Japs and their taste for raw sea food.

[zack]

Pretty nasty,but Europeans have some nasty food recipes as well. I mean....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu


Casu marzu (also called casu modde, casu cundhídu in Sardinian language, or in Italian formaggio marcio, "rotten cheese") is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese, notable for containing live insect larvae. It is found mainly in Sardinia, Italy.
Derived from Pecorino, casu marzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage most would consider decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly Piophila casei. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called lagrima, from Latin for "tears") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, about 8 millimetres (0.3 in) long.[1] When disturbed, the larvae can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in). Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming while others do not.


Milbenkäse is said to taste similar to Harzer cheese, but with a bitter note (increasing with age) and a distinctive zesty aftertaste. Mites clinging to the cheese rind are consumed along with the cheese.

Quark flavoured with salt and caraway is shaped into small balls, cylinders or wheels, and dried. Then it is placed in a wooden box containing rye flour and inhabited by Tyrophagus casei mites for at least three months. The digestive juices of the mites diffuse into the cheese and cause fermentation; the flour is added because the mites would otherwise simply eat the whole cheese instead of just nibbling away at the crust as is desired. After one month, the cheese rind turns yellow; after three months, reddish-brown. Some producers allow the cheese to ripen for up to one year, until it has turned black.

[Padre Organtino]

Glory to Sardegna!!11:D

[The Lawspeaker]

Try the recipe where they get a developing duck egg and eat it and the foetus inside!!! They actually eat these in Vietnam. :bullet puke

Warning: Very disgusting.

http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/balut.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nL03NYaY4CY/TbRDq_d7GUI/AAAAAAAACII/T4RuKNBWcAk/s1600/balut.jpg
http://www.uglyfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/balut_duck_egg.jpg
The Philippines too. It's called balut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29) and is one of the things that I will not try.

I know one thing: I will definitely enjoy tsampurado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champorado) and tuyo for breakfast:

http://babaesadagat.blog.com/files/2011/05/champorado.jpg

[Supreme American]

Laos is so backward the WHO has gone into rural villages to correct their filthy eating habits: (http://www.who.int/foodsafety/consumer/Laos_Dec07.pdf)

This food safety intervention study in rural households in Phonehong District has led to a better understanding of high risk food safety practices, and in particular, identified the consumption of raw meats and raw fish products to be a common practice among rural people and a significant problem. It has highlighted the importance of adopting an evidence-based approach to food safety education and not simply adapt/ translate existing information materials. Culture and traditional habits must be considered in food safety education programs if there is to be any impact on changing behaviours.

In summary, two key issues were identified in the baseline assessment of rural household food safety practices. Firstly, while most food preparers were observed to wash their hands using water (in a single bowl) before preparing food and after handling raw meats and vegetables, one-third did not use soap. Secondly, more than one in three households observed ate raw meats/fish/shellfish. When analysed further, it was found that eight of the 18 villages involved in this study from Phonehong District ate raw meats and raw fish.

Table 5 provides a list of different foods eaten raw (range of red meats, fish and shellfish). Results represent what head/s of household said they eat raw when interviewed by Lao Women and not actually observations. Raw cow and buffalo meats are popular, as is the consumption of raw fish and shrimp. Padec (salty fermented fish sauce) appears to be the most common food eaten raw (could be considered ‘preserved’). Duck blood was also consumed by some 45 people in the 170 households surveyed.

[brunette]

Urine-soaked 'virgin boy eggs' are a springtime taste treat in China (http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/29/10922289-urine-soaked-virgin-boy-eggs-are-a-springtime-taste-treat-in-china)

DONGYANG, China - Officials in China have listed a local food delicacy of eggs soaked in boys' urine as part of the region's intangible cultural heritage.

Every spring, street vendors in the city of Dongyang sell 'virgin boy eggs' as a unique snack.

Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. Eggs are then soaked and cooked in the urine.


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.

"They are good for your health. Our family has them for every meal. In Dongyang, every family likes eating them."

It takes nearly an entire day to make these unique eggs, starting off by soaking and then boiling raw eggs in a pot of urine. After that, the shells of the hard-boiled eggs are cracked and they continue to simmer in urine for hours.

Vendors have to keep pouring urine into the pot and controlling the fire to keep the eggs from being overheated and overcooked.

Ge said he has been making the snack, popular due to its fresh and salty taste, for more than 20 years. Each egg goes for 1.50 yuan ($0.24), a little more than twice the price of the regular eggs he also sells.

Many Dongyang residents, young and old, said they believed in the tradition passed on by their ancestors that the eggs decrease body heat, promote better blood circulation and just generally reinvigorate the body.

"By eating these eggs, we will not have any pain in our waists, legs and joints. Also, you will have more energy when you work," said Li Yangzhen, 59, who bought 20 eggs from Ge.

The eggs are not bought only at street stalls. Local residents are also known to personally collect boys' urine from nearby schools to cook the delicacy in their homes.

The popularity of the treat has led the local government to list the "virgin boy eggs" as an intangible cultural heritage.

But not everyone is a fan. Chinese medical experts gave mixed reviews about the health benefits of the practice, with some warning about sanitary issues surrounding the use of urine to cook the eggs.

Some Dongyang residents also said they hated the eggs.

"We have this tradition in Dongyang that these eggs are good for our health and that it would help prevent things like getting a cold," said Wang Junxing, 38. "I don't believe in all this, so I do not eat them."

Jesus.....

[StonyArabia]

The disgust is just beyond words. I am not fan of Chinese food anyhow lol. I prefer Med food especially from Greece and the Caucasus it's clean and good most often and has great taste.

[Furnace]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/17775117.jpg

[OldNo.7]

That's just sick.

I heard this story that, this harbour in China lost is seafood economy because they fished out all the sea life. Then as an environmental result this massive horde jellyfish began to breed in the harbour ... so they processed the Jellyfish meat or goop or whatever it is.

[Cato]

Eggs soaked in boy's piss- a tasty compliment to dog soup.

[Dan1]

http://www.terrencemiao.com/funny/2005-04/That_wasn_t_chicken.jpg

:sick2:

[Supreme American]

The disgust is just beyond words. I am not fan of Chinese food anyhow lol. I prefer Med food especially from Greece and the Caucasus it's clean and good most often and has great taste.

There's no such thing as authentic Asian food in the West, anyway. It's novelty food, since they have none of the bugs, cats, dogs, rats, bats, etc. in it as they do in Asia itself.

[Supreme American]

That's just sick.

I heard this story that, this harbour in China lost is seafood economy because they fished out all the sea life. Then as an environmental result this massive horde jellyfish began to breed in the harbour ... so they processed the Jellyfish meat or goop or whatever it is.

China has very little in the way of environmental protections and zero animal cruelty laws. It's also extremely polluted. (http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/)

[Supreme American]

Eggs soaked in boy's piss- a tasty compliment to dog soup.

One of these days we'll find them eating the vaginal discharge from dogs in heat.

[RussiaPrussia]

Pretty nasty,but Europeans have some nasty food recipes as well. I mean....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

seriously its just one island with 1 million people in europe making not even 0,01 % of europe in comparison to problably a whole chinese region with 100 million people where they eat this.

The sardinians dont eat the larva but wait until they become flies and fly away its no way near as gross as boys urine or rats.

[The Lawspeaker]

seriously its just one island with 1 million people in europe making not even 0,01 % of europe in comparison to problably a whole chinese region with 100 million people where they eat this.

The sardinians dont eat the larva but wait until they become flies and fly away its no way near as gross as boys urine or rats.
What about hákarl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl), mimolette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimolette), Milbenkäse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimolette) ?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimolette)

[Kazimiera]

One of these days we'll find them eating the vaginal discharge from dogs in heat.

It took a mind like this which came up with the piss-eggs dish too! I like that. You really put thought into this. I bet you even the Chinese haven't thought of this yet!

:thumbs up

[Supreme American]

It took a mind like this which came up with the piss-eggs dish too! I like that. You really put thought into this. I bet you even the Chinese haven't thought of this yet!

:thumbs up

I bet they have. They do some seriously weird shit. These people have penis restaurants. Don't underestimate them.

[Kazimiera]

I bet they have. They do some seriously weird shit. These people have penis restaurants. Don't underestimate them.

Penis restaurants I would consider as run-of-the-mill. You'd find one on each street corner. Every man and male animal is endowed with one so they are easy to find and the variety is great enough to cater for every taste.

On the other hand, creature-in-heat-discharge would be far more difficult to find and therefore more exclusive. A female creature in heat is only in heat as long as she is fertile, and the fertile period only lasts a few years. So this would be rare and expensive.

I think you have a recipe for success here! Can I sign up because I think I may be ovulating soon!

[rhiannon]

Just.....Ew.

[sturmwalkure]

One of these days we'll find them eating the vaginal discharge from dogs in heat.

There is a tribe in Africa that eats the menstrual fluids of female cows. I kid you not.

[rhiannon]

There is a tribe in Africa that eats the menstrual fluids of female cows. I kid you not.

Umm...

:bullet puke:bullet puke:bullet puke

[Kazimiera]

Girls, there is MONEY to be made here! We can harvest our cervical mucus during ovulation! The watery ovulation kind can be sold at a higher price. The regular middle-of-month kind can be sold at an average cost. And when we have thrush - that can be auctioned to the highest bidder!

(Sorry, I have a rather "different" sense of humour and the moderators are welcome to moderate me if I'm a bit crass.)

[Odoacer]

The traditional recipe for thousand year old eggs originally required lengthy marination in horsepiss. I try to avoid chinese food when I can.

I don't believe that's true. Millennium eggs were originally buried in lime clay.


seriously its just one island with 1 million people in europe making not even 0,01 % of europe in comparison to problably a whole chinese region with 100 million people where they eat this.

It's one city of about 800,000 people in China.


The sardinians dont eat the larva but wait until they become flies and fly away its no way near as gross as boys urine or rats.

Actually, the maggots are either removed or consumed alive - while still in the larval stage. And of course the cheese is fermented by the digestive fluids of the maggots. I'm not sure I find casu marzu more or less appealing than urine-soaked eggs or roasted rats. But it is true in general that European cuisine is far less adventurous than Chinese cuisine.

[Odoacer]

Girls, there is MONEY to be made here! We can harvest our cervical mucus during ovulation! The watery ovulation kind can be sold at a higher price. The regular middle-of-month kind can be sold at an average cost. And when we have thrush - that can be auctioned to the highest bidder!

(Sorry, I have a rather "different" sense of humour and the moderators are welcome to moderate me if I'm a bit crass.)

You're not the first to think of such things ...

pIs9VLDRCPQ

[Kazimiera]

You're not the first to think of such things ...

Back to the drawing board.

[askra]

seriously its just one island with 1 million people in europe making not even 0,01 % of europe in comparison to problably a whole chinese region with 100 million people where they eat this.

The sardinians dont eat the larva but wait until they become flies and fly away its no way near as gross as boys urine or rats.

cheese with living larvae is eaten and produced in many italian regions, but strangely people believe it is a sardinian speciality only.

these are identical cheeses with living larvae from other italian regions (from north, center and south of peninsula):
Marcetto or cace fraceche in Abruzzo
Gorgonzola co-i grilli in Liguria
Salterello in Friuli Venezia Giulia
Furmai nis (formaggio Nisso) in Emilia Romagna
Frmag punt in Apulia
Casu du quagghiu in Calabria
Cacie' Punt (formaggio punto) in Molise



The sardinians dont eat the larva but wait until they become flies and fly away its no way near as gross as boys urine or rats.
trust me, some people eat them alive :D

[mrcmc888]

Apparently Chinese do. :D

They had to do something during the 2,000 years they weren't fighting among themselves.

[Iloko]

absolutely delicious!