300275 Mon May 16 23:33:54 -0700 2005 15 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1667881 There's just something about thousand year-old egg that I can't get from anything else. It's one of the most unique foods I personally have experienced and it's about as versatile as a standard egg. Usually it's served with congee but I'm wondering if any restaurants do it in other ways. Anyone know? Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Mon May 16 23:33:54 -0700 2005 0 IronGut 1 1667882 Sometimes it's served with pickled ginger as one component of a multipart appetizer platter in a Cantonese banquet. Chopped 1000 year old egg with tofu is a fairly popular Shanghainese dish. Mon May 16 23:41:08 -0700 2005 1667881 0 Limster 2 1667903 Yeah, I do the tofu/egg salad thing at home a lot. It's really easy. Also, the thousand year-old egg I usually have is duck egg, I'm not sure if I've ever had preserved chicken egg before. Has anyone out there? Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Tue May 17 11:43:38 -0700 2005 1667882 0 IronGut 1 1667890 I've had 1000-year-old eggs in a Cantonese braised vegetable dish with gao gei (a Chinese veg similar to spinach, don't know the English/scientific name for it), salted duck eggs and regular hen's eggs. I've also eaten a Japanese dish of silken tofu custard topped with 1000-yr-old eggs, that is served cold, in a dashi-based consomme. Tue May 17 02:07:53 -0700 2005 1667881 0 ju 2 1667902 Cool! You had three types of eggs with that dish! It must've been an interesting looking dish - almost like an exotic Easter basket. Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Tue May 17 11:41:09 -0700 2005 1667890 0 IronGut 3 1667905 There's a dish that my aunt makes that is a steamed egg custard with chopped thousand year old egg and salted egg. Tue May 17 12:20:24 -0700 2005 1667902 0 Curtis 4 1667942 Yes, I've had that too - forgot about it - thanks for the reminder! Got to make it soon.... Tue May 17 22:12:59 -0700 2005 1667905 0 ju 4 1668094 I have made a steamed custard dish with fresh chicken eggs , the yolk of a salted duck egg, cut up 1000 year-egg, unborn eggs or fish roe and shrimp roe. I never tell when I made because Chowfun would run me over to get to this dish. I think the dish is call Three Yolk Custard (the number will match the number of eggs used). Yolk in Cantonese sounds like the color yellow or the noun King. So therefore it sounds as good as it tastes. Sat May 21 18:01:12 -0700 2005 1667905 0 yimster 2 1667989 I had a similar dish to the Japanese one recently, at a Cantonese dim sum house. It was cold silken tofu topped with finely diced 1000-year-old egg and preserved veggies (ja choy.) Drizzled with soy, sesame and a bit of chopped cilantro I think. Really good. Thu May 19 02:09:10 -0700 2005 1667890 0 eyegirl 1 1667907 I have had stir-fry Chinese greens with 1000 Year-Old Egg and Preserved Eggs. The eggs are diced and stir-fried together with the greens. Tue May 17 12:59:26 -0700 2005 1667881 0 Cecilia 2 1667941 This is the second thousand year-old egg and another type egg combo. I have to try one of these. Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Tue May 17 20:54:45 -0700 2005 1667907 0 IronGut 1 1667927 I eat them plain. There was an incident awhile back where the eggs contained high levels of lead because of the mud being used. Never knew how it got resolved. Any one know ? Tue May 17 17:54:32 -0700 2005 1667881 0 somedude 2 1667940 Yikes! That's scary. Yeah, does anyone know about this lead thing? Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Tue May 17 20:52:46 -0700 2005 1667927 0 IronGut 1 1667932 I can't stop thinking about a dish we ate at a chowdown at Louie's California Chinese in San Francisco in early April -- thousand year old eggs and shrimp in sweet and sour sauce. Utterly delicious. http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/sanfrancisco/messages/124609.html Link: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jrtregor/detail?.dir=/45dc&.dnm=1a91.jpg&.src=ph Tue May 17 19:35:49 -0700 2005 1667881 0 Missy P. 2 1667939 Sweet and sour AND thousand year-old egg!! That's insane!! What could possibly be next? Link: http://deependdining.blogspot.com/ Tue May 17 20:50:54 -0700 2005 1667932 0 IronGut 3 1668093 It is not a sweet and sour thousand year old egg, but quartered eggs batter and deep fried and served with fried shrimp in a sweet and sour sauce. Later I have another dish using this treat for the cooking board. I need to measure the portions first. I normally do not measure just cook to taste. Sat May 21 17:55:53 -0700 2005 1667939 0 yimster