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The Thousand Year Old Egg is also called the Century Egg and is a Chinese delicacy.
It is an egg (duck, chicken or quail) that is "preserved" in a special mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls. I have heard that these can be stored for weeks or months.
Like the Balut, this is incredibly difficult for westerners to stomach. Unlike Balut, I have tried this and it is a taste I did not like. Just thinking about it makes me gag.
Balut is a fertilized egg embryo that is typically aged for 16-21 days (depending on which country you eat it in) then boiled like a hard boiled egg and eaten. It is supremely popular in the Philippines and Vietnam.
I have encountered it often in those countries but just couldn't get myself to try it. My western palate just can't stomach this.
It is such a difficult concept for us that it was even a Fear Factor even
