Did you know that the Chinese love to eat eggs? Yes, they eat them alone but in most cases together with chicken, duck, goose, pigeon and others. In fact, the Chinese make many meals with eggs, many more than we do, and if we have to choose just one dish from all the egg dishes that has its gastronomy I think the most popular are the salted duck eggs or the "centennial eggs”. These two dishes are made and eaten throughout China.
Salted duck eggs are made with fresh eggs, leaving them in brine a month before so that they absorb salt well and change color, and centennial eggs are prepared with duck, quail or chicken eggs by mixing them with a combination of ashes, salt , lime, clay and rice for several weeks or months until the white turns a brown jelly. Yes, they smell strong.
And how do you say egg in Chinese? Well it sounds like and which in turn sounds like dai which means rebirth or fertility and customs indicate that when people marry, when a baby is born or when it turns 1 month of life they should give each other eggs painted red since they represent hope and happiness.