Century Egg With Homemade Pickled Ginger

This is a delicacy most Chinese will love .... in their porridge, steamed egg and or as a dish by itself eaten with slices of pickled ginger. Nowadays, they even wrapped them in beancured skin as spring roll - a dim sum delight!

I bought 10 century eggs @ RM0.80 each from my regular egg stall at the Central Market last weekend. Daddy and I had them as a side dish when we had our dinner the last few nights....:P it was so addictive especially the homemade pickled ginger tasted so awesome....the sweetness and sourness was just perfect...mmmm ...so refreshing , eating those pickled ginger slices with the century egg! A perfect match for the century egg.... every mouthful was addictive.... my homemade pickled ginger being the main attraction for this hors d'oeuvre !!!! Truly , the best pickled ginger I have made and eaten thus far. I am delighted with the result of the pickled ginger. I kept the other jar for my Piggies ^ *

Text extracted from Wikipedia

Century egg, also known as preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, and thousand-year-old egg, is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice straw for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing. After the process is completed, the yolk becomes a dark green, cream-like substance with a strong odor of sulphur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, transparent jelly with little flavour or taste. The transforming agent in the century egg is its alkaline material, which gradually raises the pH of the egg from around 9 to 12 or more. This chemical process breaks down some of the complex, flavorless proteins and fats, which produces a variety of smaller flavourful compounds.

Some eggs have patterns near the surface of the egg white that are likened to pine branches.

Century eggs can be eaten without further preparation, on their own as a side dish. As an hors d’oeuvre , the Cantonese wrap chunks of this egg with slices of pickled ginger root (sometimes sold on a stick as street food). A Shanghainese recipe mixes chopped century eggs with chilled tofu. In Taiwan it is popular to eat century eggs on top of cold tofu with katsuobushi , soy sauce, and sesame oil in a style similar to Japanese Hiyayakko. A variation of this recipe common in northern China is to slice century eggs over chilled silken (soft) tofu, adding liberal quantities of shredded young ginger and chopped spring onions as a topping, and then drizzling light soy sauce and sesame oil over the dish, to taste. They are also used in a dish called old-and-fresh eggs, where chopped century eggs are combined with (or used to top) an omelet made with fresh eggs.

look at it...reminds me of a black gem

the homemade pickled ginger has turned darker pink :)

Eaten with my homemade pickled ginger

mmmm.....so yum yummy

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TGIF...have a great weekend

and eat healthy :)))