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mnfaure

The things I see - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Feb 19, 2010 17:34

At a local food market, pretty pink eggs, but....

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frigg February 19 2010, 11:58:17 UTC

Are they maybe "thousand year eggs"? I don't know if they have those in Thailand or if it's solely a Chinese thing, though.

mnfaure February 19 2010, 12:18:00 UTC

I don't know either. I saw some wonky hard-boiled brown (shelled) eggs floating in a dark, clear broth and wondered the same thing (about whether or not they have the 1000yr eggs in Thailand, too), but I didn't ask. Sometimes it's too hard to make yourself understood.

frigg February 19 2010, 17:27:53 UTC

Maybe they're pickled dragon eggs?

mnfaure February 21 2010, 03:54:45 UTC

hehe. Maybe. I should have bought some to show to my grandkids. :P

pjthompson February 19 2010, 20:37:16 UTC

Wonderful images--both of the pictorial kind and the word kind.

mnfaure February 21 2010, 04:00:11 UTC

I just wish we would have had our camera to photograph that elephant!

hkneale February 20 2010, 12:39:54 UTC

Pink eggs, um, possibly either a version of balut or possibly century eggs? Century eggs go black.

mnfaure February 21 2010, 04:00:35 UTC

What is balut?

hkneale February 22 2010, 03:44:31 UTC

It's actually a Philippine dish, but I wouldn't be surprised if a variant was found in other parts of SE Asia.

Balut is the chicken version of very young veal.

A chicken egg is cooked one day before it hatches. The Philippinos love it.

mnfaure February 24 2010, 04:34:25 UTC

Okaaaay, let's juts add that to my "never try" list, shall we?