Thousand Year Old Egg

We have all heard of the Thousand Year Old Egg, which obviously cannot be a literal thousand years old. So how do you make this delightful thing? Take an egg from whatever bird tickles your fancy and cover it in clay mixed with other compounds such as ash, salt, and lime (not the fruit). Then, like many foods you can eat but should never eat, it gets left to its own devices for several weeks to months.

So what does it taste like? You guessed it, ammonia. Obviously some people like this taste, but it doesn’t matter how you slice it: you are eating a rotten, rotten egg.

Should you eat this? People all over Asia do and they haven’t died yet. But do you want to eat a rotten urine-flavored egg? Do you?

Have I personally tried this? Nope, but I’m going to start trying to obtain some of these foods.