Thousand-year-old Egg

[GunzProStarZ]

That egg was called duck eggs. In Chinese we bury the eggs in a large crock that's been layered and lined with garden soil, and then store in a cool dry place for 3-4 months. And putting ingredients include a blend of equal parts of ash from charcoal, pine wood, and fireplace, along with salt and strong black tea. And cut in wedges and serve with sweet pickled vegetables or a sauce of vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine, and minced ginger. Yum!!! It totally delicious!!!

[cokmod]

really. i just hate it when westerners made asian food look disgusting. it tastes awesome

[vampie134]

For Salad: Peel it, wash it, season it with oyster sauce, sesame oil, sprinkle with scallion and Katsuobushi flakes, and then serve with twice amounts of silken tofu.

[Arkenarge]

that guy looks like a college proffesor

[crazycool1128]

first time i've seen 100 year old egg with yellow yolk....

[aczbdk]

They should first try Congee with Pork and Thousand-Year-Old Egg, know what it taste like and then see what the real egg looks like.

Chinks usually don't eat those yogurt, it is totally wrong to eat it the egg directly.

[RItyoutune]

千年蛋?早就變化石了, 還能吃嗎?

[victyeung]

I don't prefer eat it directly.

I like mix with steam egg and Congee.

[kellygun7788]

We Taiwanese do like Pidan .It"s delicious.but we dont eat it directly.We eat it with Tofu and soy bean sauce or cook it with mixed meat congee.

[RheaJovovich]

@kellygun7788 i agree!! but i also like it directly!! i just ate one now!!

[hellobil]

From the look of it, it doesn't look like the genuine Pidan. The yolk should be green, not yellow, and the skin should be translucent brownish red, not black. I bet it doesn't taste right either. The genuine Pidan haa a very strong ammonia scent.

[itsssannie]

its all mind over matter. you hear the name "Thousand Year Old Egg" which is misleading, and then you see that it's black which you think is rotten, expecting it to taste awful. when in fact its not bad. the egg 'white' part doesn't have much of a taste at all. the flavor is all in the yolk. if you take a small bite of it and really savor it, its a pretty nice rich flavor. people are just ignorant.

however, it tastes much better if cooked in a rice porridge.

[mikekamlee]

so white

[ajwf95]

2. My original comment was directed to the attitude of these individuals. Watching this video was like watching an episode of fear factor. They dont seem to be eating it because they seem curious about other culinary delicacies, rather for the novelty of it seeming "disgusting". Why does the guy in the red shirt want this to be on youtube so that he can "brag" to his friends? Somehow I don't feel that he means his friends will be insanely jealous of his opportunity to eat the egg.

[MrKicks2010]

whats more nasty is passing it around in all these hands lol...

[TheRandomX1]

guys! that egg is eaten as food garnishing, it is eaten just like you do with caviar!

[shazaandfrank]

Oh dear... you dont eat century eggs like that. Im a century egg lover but i also cant stand it by eating it solely. It is best served with porridge with lean pork, top with shallot and add sesame oil. Just one or half century egg per serve. It is tasted like that - moldy-tasting and white frost pattern on the surface, and it has really strong flavor. Im not surprised, you will hate it if you had it first time just like that.

[ajwf95]

stick to pizza.  your family obviously too pretentious to open up your horizons. eating a century egg by itself is like eating a stick of butter. you know how cheese and yogurt are made? how about alcohol? idiots.

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

And YOU. Stop trying to act like you know better than everybody. They tried something they never experienced before. I'm sure the first time you experienced something you were also like this. Lighten up a little.

[ajwf95]

@jman202011 yea, i agree that vegemite was strange as hell when I first tried it, but I didnt make faces like it was poison. I accepted the fact that people ate it and respected that. Be a guest in another country vastly different then yours and make the faces they were in that video and see how far that hospitality will last.

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

Ok, so telling somebody to "stick to pizza" is any better? What tells you that these people don't "accept the fact" that other people eat it? Nothing. "Making faces" doesn't count. Some cultures drink their own piss. Would you drink your own piss without making faces? Probably not. It's natural for somebody to make faces towards something they've never tried before, especially something like this. Does that mean they're pretentious? Of course not.

[ajwf95]

@jman202011 1. Your comparing eating an culturally different way of preparing an egg to drinking your own urine, how are they even alike (cultural practice vs. cuisine)? To answer your question, yes my natural reaction would most likely be negative, but consuming something that I have been accustomed to being WASTE, is not the same as not being accustomed to different FOOD. Ya know you can get sick from fecal matter, what natural inference can you make from that about HUMAN WASTE? Dont eat it?

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

How are they alike? Because you're still ingesting something that one person might not see fit to ingest but the other person does. My whole point is that you should lighten up a little and not be so judgmental towards people who aren't used to certain things, like eating an old egg. Sure, you might eat it and like it, but that's you. And like you said, you're accustomed to it. THEY, are not.

And fecal matter is shit. Drinking your own urine has been proven to be healthy for you.

[ajwf95]

@jman202011 then lead by example. nuff said.

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

You'd be better off if you actually took your own advice.

Lets see. We sit here telling somebody to "go eat pizza" and called them pretentious, yet I just caught you red handed, calling urine fecal matter and thinking it was bad for you, but low and behold it is good for you.

Like I said, lighten up. There's no need to be an elitist prick.

[ajwf95]

@jman202011 Your a fucking tool. Yes, drinking urine can be good for you...in survival measures. Are we fighting for our survival? No. We have clean water, food, therefore it is not necessary to drink our own damn urine. What the video is pertaining to here is a DELICACY. Do you understand you stupid twat?

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

Um, no...

You have to realize one thing. Things change over time. Just because THEY think it's a delicacy doesn't mean another culture does. Slaves ate crab back in the 1800's, now it's pretty much a delicacy in a lot of towns, but not everybody likes crab. Maybe they think it tastes bad. MMMMMMBUTT WHYYYY?

That's what you did. It's not a question of why. It looks like a fucking rotten egg.

[ajwf95]

@jman202011 My point was drinking urine is not a delicacy. Thousand year old eggs are not named after temporal properties of the egg. Although i cannot confirm your idea that slaves ate alot of crabs...maybe that had to do with grouping of slaves in certain GEOGRAPHICAL areas? Yes and not everyone likes crab, but maybe you should go back to the top and see the point: Have an open mind; you may not like it, but be respectful because there are those who do.

[jman202011]

@ajwf95

Lots of things aren't delicacies. I'm aware it is not named after temporal properties. My point is, it looks like a rotten egg, even though it's not. Plain and simple. Just because they have a negative reaction to it does not mean they don't respect the fact that people actually like it. It's not like they went up to a chinese person and said "HEY YOU FUCKING SUCK YOU EAT ROTTEN EGGS."

That would be disrespectful.

[jimmyjamesWang]

lol, let me be racist for once: you dumb white people are so stupid. If century eggs really are full of parasite and germ, people who first ate it would have gotten sick very soon, and it will not be eaten any more. None of you know how it was preserved. It's PH level is very high, that means it has less parasite than most of those "safe" junk food you fucks eat all day.

[jman202011]

@jimmyjamesWang

Whoa, you mad? Chill out. So you know a lot about rotten eggs. Give yourself a pat on the back. You sound more ignorant than anyone here.

[hejiahan]

this is jus a soy sauce egg not thousand year old egg, thousand year old egg have dark green yolk

[ilikepie2u]

thousand year eggs are weird to americans as pizza is weird to africans. get over it, it's a preserved duck egg.

[12ock]

its a 100days egg

[KousAB10]

is it really 1000 years old??

[daydreamsforever]

no thats just what the name is, its from a chinese quisene, they wrap the egg in mud and salt and some other stuff, preserve it for a few months, then crack it open

[hejiahan]

@KousAB10 no

[hejiahan]

@KousAB10 thay jus call it that

[hoganhymn]

the color from the soysauce..tastes sweet n salty....it is actually not thousand yr egg..thousand yr egg is more bitter tasting..n saulty..

[Elbottoo]

Thousand year old eggs are not actually thousand years old.

And they arent fermented eggs either. The color (grey, brown) comes from the clay, salt, vinegar and tealeaves. Its like jerky or salted herring. Because its put in vinegar or salt, the products stays "good" for months even years.

But people associate the colors with "rotting" and the name is deceiving aswell. Once you get past that stage, you will realize youre just eating an egg with some tea flavor.

Its tastes better when cooked

[XConverseLover]

Hmm i love pidann, haa

[th2348]

it's not even a century egg. no century egg's yolk in yellow, but it's another kind of Chinese egg. very delicious. Please confirm it later!

[000KPW000]

I have eaten one and I had it prepared for me properly it tasted quite good! It tasted to me like egg and sesame oil. I will certainly eat it again.

[Mariposa06ADB]

Mmmm, egg and sesame oil. That does sound more pleasant than my experience here. I hope to try it again

[5687678]

It tastes the best when eating with grits stew.

[anbncejksg]

in chinese, its better known as pidan. look like you guys are pidan virgins. the egg you had is probably spoiled/not thoroughly fermented. a pidan should be dark in color (yolk & whites). suppose to have the texture of hard-boiled eggs. fermentation changes the pH of the egg to cure it. sometimes, there is a contrasting snowflake pattern outside the yolk. if properly cured, not broken & kept dry, theres no need for frigeration & is good 'til it loses all its moisture. flavorful, never foul.

[Mariposa06ADB]

I'm sure it was just not stored properly on my friend's long journey back to the states. It was quite spoiled and moldy-tasting when we were tasting it here.

[xxhairstylistx]

although i do believe that is either a soy egg or a tea egg since the yolk is still yellow, MahlerTitan really seems to have nothing better to do than ATTACK this video wanna talk racist? Lets see how many redneck slurs he/she spewed out over and over for NO REASON

[longarm123]

try eating it after its cooked, tastes better

[LuvAu]

This egg is yummy. Anyway no need to post on the net, it waste youtube space. Nothing extraordinary, asian normally eat it with sauce.

[honkifurh0rny]

yeah well we arnt all asian so stfu

[AkimotoMichiyo1428]

cook with congee~ its good

[MahlerTitan]

Their tiny narrow brains probably think that the world revolves around their little redneck community. Everything that is foreign and alien to them are therefore "Disgusting" and "weird". Not knowing that the entire world have just glimpsed at what we call "racism" in america. Small mindedness, and downright ignorance are the roots of idiots behaving like this.

They are the disgrace of all Americans, and therefore the disgrace of all humankind, they are garbage, that's what they are, really.

[Mariposa06ADB]

Hi MahlerTitan - Thank you for taking the time to watch the clip and share your views. I do not understand, however, how the responses in this clip are expressions of racism. They are responding to the taste of the food and the concept. We KNOW that it was not actually 1000 years old --- that's just the marketing ploy on the package.

[Mariposa06ADB]

I totally understand that many cultural foods are aquired tastes. American food (chopped up, processed intestines in hotdogs, processed cheeses,etc) is probably equally disgusting to many non-americans, and visitors here probably go home with stories about the awefulness of american food.

Finally, it is not necessary to leave such hateful comments. I am not significant enough for the whole world to pay attention to this clip. It was primarily for my friends to take note of their own responses.

[MahlerTitan]

I'm mean the people in the video should be ashamed of themselves. Luckily, the entire world is now laughing at their ignorance and racism. People tend to consume things that they like, and I certainly don't plan to post a video of myself being disguted by something from another culture. It's called "insensitive" at best. What it really is, is Racism, and a profound sense of disgust toward an alien culture to which they haven't the faintest idea what it is like.

[1000OceansWide]

Wow they are really stupid if they though it was really a thousand years old. It would be pricless if it really was.

[MahlerTitan]

what do you expect from a bunch of rednecks?

[1000OceansWide]

Lol yea your right.

[MahlerTitan]

I mean, they can't even tell the difference between a "Pidan" AKA "Thousand year egg" with a "Chadan/Ludan" AKA "Tea egg".

How obnoxious and offensive it is, to post a video like this on youtube, to show the world of their ignorant, and probably racist views?

I bet, if they buy something normal from China, E.G a simply boiled egg, they would've find it "disgusting", simply because of their own bigotry and racist views.

[cirho]

@MahlerTitan They are just not used to the taste. I reacted more or less the same way the first time I tried durian when I was kid. And I still can't bear the taste of blue cheese and I am Chinese. They are just having fun for trying something very new to them. And that could be funny : )

[UDavidT]

It tastes pretty good, ppl should try it.

[bombaykitty07]

shut up and just give me that thousand year old egg, i'll swallow it up with soy sauce under a nano second... what a bunch of pussies

[tangaroa67]

It's disgusting.....

[sonic2359]

It is called "Pee Dan" and it tastes delicious, "Pee dan" is popular in some Asian countries.

Err.. I think maybe your friend gave you a rotten one..

[Mariposa06ADB]

Lol -- probably! She didn't know how to store it, and it traveled unrefrigerated the whole way back, and then sat in humid tropical heat for quite a few hours!

I'd like to try a fresh/real Pee Dan sometime!

[hkrickychu]

Thats just a egg boiled with soy sauce.

What's so funny?

[nathanyyyy]

no thats a tea egg... thousand year egg has been preserved by clay and ash mix over 2 months. thats y its got a characteristic taste. i love it!! =))

[andwedanced]

Hey bud the egg is actually (probably) only three months old...not a thousand. WIKIPEDIA!

[fenxian1]

Ahh, I still have one left. tomorrow my breakfast.

[MahlerTitan]

When i was young growing up in China, I hated those eggs, but as I grew older i developed a taste for them. They taste quite nice, especially the yolk part, which is the most flavorful, and the taste of the yolk is something that simply indescribable. It's really pungent, milky, or even sweet, but with a heavy aroma of chemicals(whatever what used to preserve the eggs with)

[fenxian1]

Me too. I don't like those eggs when i was young. I still cann't just eat like that now. I might do same thing as them throw out. "Pidan shourou zhou"=cook with ground pork with porridge add ginger and onion and pidan when it done. very delicious! Easy cook "ludan" better leave egg inside sauce 1 day until taste go deep inside. I don't how to make "pidan", i always buy from Mkt. they call it "century egg". 1 century=100. 100 days instead of 1000 days.

[MahlerTitan]

i don't think (although i might be wrong) that individual family houshold are equiped with handling preserved Pidan. My family went as far as preserving some salty duck eggs, but that was it. I image it must be very difficult to make your own Pidan at home. That's why we buy them from chinese supermarkets nowadays.

[UDavidT]

Ohh Fenxian1 i know what your talking about, i love that dish.

[10meijuan]

it's not really a 1000 year old!!

[MahlerTitan]

uhhh, execuse me, but what you had there is not "Thousand year egg", it's called "ludan" or "tea egg", which is just ordinary boiled egg boiled with soil sauce, tea leaf and spices.

so your reactions are all exagerated, since the only thing "disgusting" about it is the title "Thousand year egg"(which you errneously assume it to be, when it is not).

The real thousand year egg is an acquired taste, but what you had WAS NOT THOUSAND YEAR OLD EGG!

[fenxian1]

It's not "ludan", it's "pidan". I believe they'll like "ludan". I cann't eat "pidan" like this neither. I usually dip little soy sauce or Chinese vinegar, eat with porridge.

[MahlerTitan]

No, it's probably called "ludan", "pidan"=thousand year eggs. I know, because i have bought the exact same thing when i was in china 4 years ago! Ludan (what they had) is just a commercial version of "Tea Egg"-harmless boiled eggs with spices; while "Pidan"/thousand year old egg(or "songhua dan",there are other names for this) is a very strong flavored preserved Chinese delicacy that is extremely pungent and is quite an acquired taste.

[MahlerTitan]

you might ask me why I know it's not "Ludan"/"Thousand year old egg", I know it's not it because no Thousand year old egg comes in that sort of packaging. They are usually sold wrapped in plastic sold in boxes containing exactly half dozen such eggs. The Shell of thousand year old eggs is light Blue,and the egg white is BLACK(like charcoal), the yolk should be green with dark blue and black inside.

[cleeyn]

At 1:30 I thougth that he would spit it out fror some other person to eat-Those people are soo annoying with their laughing

It would probably be digusting since they all took a bite from the same egg

eggs=yummy

[mrsgore666]

ppl are so fucking dumb is not bad for you its just a fucking egg morons! it dosent smell and it dosent taste bad fycking MORONS.... SO ignorant!

[Mariposa06ADB]

Thank you for your comment, though the foul language was not necessary.

It did actually smell pretty aweful, and it tasted foul. Someone else commented that it was probably spoiled.

[oswald1973]

It's call century egg, not thousand year old.... it's fermented for 100 days, to preserve it. No germs....

[ExtremeFear]

Lol, up to this day I still eat this. Try eating "Salted duck eggs."

[AugustAmy]

They aren't really 1000 years old, just preserved in a bunch of different stuff, buried in sand, or something like that.

[dominokat07]

I think I would be more grossed out from eating that egg, not from the actual taste, but because half a dozen people had already grabbed it with bare dirty hands and passed it from HAND to HAND and people stuck it up in their NOSE and eww I'm sure it was just totally germy and contaminated from being handled so much by the time the last person in line finished eating it. :P

[iluvcelinaagain]

im chinese and i eat it tons of times it was in fear factor too 100 year old egg o.o

[DarkAzoroth]

im Chinese and their not a thousand year old,their just called by that name..lol its funny watching them calling it "thousand year old egg" and like give weird reactions to it after eating it lol

[oysterlicker]

I like these eggs, but I'll be very careful about getting the ones from china, as they could be tainted with carcinogenic substance.

Get those from Taiwan instead.

[arechiga00]

most modern 1000 year old egs are only 10days old, but who cares its still gross....lol

[Mariposa06ADB]

Hmmm, that might have made a difference if it was supposed to be stored in the fridge! It looked very processed and packeged, so I guess my friend didn't think about how to store it! lol, Thanks for the tip! Rice porridge... hmmm. :)

[000KPW000]

I also boiled mine so that might have made a difference as well

[chinesemusicDJ]

You know... The egg you we're eating was probably spoiled. They should be storred in the fride haha, maybe thats why it tasted so terrible. You don't have to go to china to buy them, just go to your local asian market and you'll find them in the fridge section. No one eats these eggs by themselves. We usually chop it up and put it in rice porrage. Mmmm.