Egg Dishes
Century Egg
皮蛋
China
Duck egg cured in alkaline clay, ash and salt for weeks until the white turns to dark amber jelly and the yolk to grey-green cream.
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What it is
A closer look at Century Egg.
Duck egg cured in alkaline clay, ash and salt for weeks until the white turns to dark amber jelly and the yolk to grey-green cream.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
Look for a pine-branch frost pattern on the white — the mark of a well-cured one. Eaten quartered with ginger and vinegar, or stirred into congee.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Century Egg.
Names around the table
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Denmark
Aegekage
Flæskeggekage
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Molise, Italy
Affunnatielle
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Scania, Sweden
Egg Cake
Äggakaka
Traditional Scanian dish similar to a thick pancake or omelette, served with fried pork and lingonberries.
Wales, United Kingdom
Anglesey Eggs
Anglesey eggs combine mashed potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and leeks under a cheese sauce.
Bahrain
Baid Tmat
بيد طماط
Bahraini scrambled eggs with tomatoes — a simple breakfast dish where 'baid' means eggs and 'tmat' means tomatoes, cooked together into a soft, savoury scramble.
Malta
Balbuljata
Eggs scrambled loosely with tomato, onion, garlic and sometimes capers and parsley, eaten with Maltese bread.
France
Berlinguettes d’Avignon
Berlinguettes d’Avignon are halved eggs filled with a seasoned anchovy-and-herb mixture and baked until set.
Peru
Bistec a lo Pobre
A hearty plate of garlic-rubbed steak topped with fried eggs, served with fried onions, potatoes, and rice. 'Poor man's steak' that's anything but poor.