2012-03-30

Urine soaked eggs

If only April Fool's were a few days early, but this is not a joke, there are stories from March 2011 about this "delicacy."

童子尿煮蛋变童子蛋竟受追捧 摊贩小学收尿
Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat in China city
Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in "virgin boy eggs", a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10.

There is no good explanation for why it has to be boys' urine, just that it has been so for centuries.

The scent of these eggs being cooked in pots of urine is unmistakable as people pass the many street vendors in Dongyang who sell it, claiming it has remarkable health properties.

"If you eat this, you will not get heat stroke. These eggs cooked in urine are fragrant," said Ge Yaohua, 51, who owns one of the more popular "virgin boy eggs" stalls.

"They are good for your health. Our family has them for every meal. In Dongyang, every family likes eating them."

It takes nearly an entire day to make these unique eggs, starting off by soaking and then boiling raw eggs in a pot of urine. After that, the shells of the hard-boiled eggs are cracked and they continue to simmer in urine for hours.
If this is a hoax, it is very a elaborate one because there's even a Chinese wiki entry on this at Hudong(互动): 童子尿煮鸡蛋

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