Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
ok -- stupid question. or clarification. These eggs are NOT cured for 1,000 years -- right?
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Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
abstract_duck: for me, the smell comes on when i start chewing... not while its sitting all innocuous on the plate... my housemate could smell it from a long way off, though =p
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
My family has always eaten them in a tofu 'salad' - cubed silken tofu, cubed pidan, a handful of spring onion and pork floss, topped with a little soy sauce and sesame oil. I remember as a kid being a bit leery of the way it looked, but having grown up with the taste, I love how creamy and rich it tastes, and it provides a good contrast to the other ingredients in the dish (sometimes I still cringe a bit looking at it). I don't think I've ever noticed a smell, however.
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
musky and volcanic... definitely apt descriptors =)
i think diluting pidan's intensity of flavor by having it with congee, tofu, or in a steamed egg custard dish would be good for pidan virgins!
has anyone tried pidan in sweets? i've spied them in lotus seed (lian rong) pastries in chinatown bakeries...
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
if it's your first time to try it i'd have to agree with some of the posteres here: try it with congee.. lessens the shock to your tastebuds.. ;p
with regard to the egg tasting like [blue] cheese.. i'd have to disagree.. this has a more musky(?), rather than moldy, flavor..
it also goes well with instant noodles.. ^_^
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
They're more sulfurous than actually cheese-like, IMO.
I've never tasted cheese that had that same assertive...volcanic... flavor...almost wandering into the realm of not resembling an animal product (It also looks quite like a rock until you peel it and slice it open)
That said, pidan are quite tasty with the right accompaniment and the right dosage.
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
I've had rattlesnake. I did not find it particularly adventurous. But if it is for you, then yeah, this may be a bit outside of your palette.
If you do want to try it, it's probably a lot easier to start out with it chopped into congee.
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
love2cook: it's really a lot tamer than it looks, but it does bite back the first few times you taste it ;) personally, it smells a lot better to me than a wet dog, so...
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
I hate to be a born in a tiny Midwest town and never gotten off the continent girl but ok I am. I thought this was a Jell-O type thing with a kiwi. I swear that is what it looks like until you really look at it and scroll down. I will eat nearly anything including rattlesnake and I love sushi but this item scares me. I love to learn about new things but I can smell it when I look at the picture and it does not smell good:) so thank you brave explorer of everything for going where I fear to tread but want to read.
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
I love Pi Dan! I sliced them up with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic and a dash of rice wine vinegar. In congee or just plain rice. I love the stuff.
I can also see how someone can describe it as being like a blue cheese. The pungency maybe be similar. Century eggs are like the Tofu Lu you wrote about earlier this month...pungent, salty and nasal clearing.
Grocery Ninja: Thousand-Year-Old Eggs and the Horse Urine Myth
one of my favourite dim sum food. century egg porridge. *yum* and also when i'm lazy, steam egg with quartered century eggs - eat it with steamed white rice... comfort food.
but i agree, it doesn't taste like cheese.
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