Remember the Chinese New Year with the Flavorful Century Egg

I celebrate the Chinese New Year every year not just to enjoy the joyful celebrations but also to welcome luck and affluence in my home. That is the reason why I consider the crucial principles of the renowned Chinese custom of feng shui in arranging my home. After all, it’s not bad to trusting on to some essential Chinese practices and beliefs especially if it’s for money and happiness right?

Every Chinese New Year, I make sure to nibble a new Chinese specialty or delicacy – and this year, I get to taste the famous Century Egg. Century eggs, known as hundred-year egg, preserved egg, and thousand year old egg, are a kind of Chinese food that is made of chicken, duck, or quail eggs mixed with ash, salt, lime, clay, and rice straw and is preserved from a minimum of ten days up to several months depending on the kind of processing.

The egg white, the translucent brown part, has a gooey texture but has a natural taste while the yolk, the dark green part, has a strong cheese-like flavor. It can be eaten as a tasty appetizer or hors d'oeuvre, or as an ingredient in tons of Chinese foods such as congees, omelets, and soups.