| Well I can be a cold, hard-boiled sort of girl but I have sunny-side-up moments. Also totally scrambled. But my favourite kind of eggs are Chinese Hundred Year Eggs. Theyre eggs that have been pickled in some kind of black liquid Christ knows what it is possibly a kind of animal slurry. Theyre left there for about a year, I think, then you take the shell off, and theyre just like hard-boiled eggs, but black. The whites are a sort of pellucid black, and the yolks are the colour of soot or pitch, and very velvety. When I lived in Taiwan, I became quite addicted to them; theyre quite rightly seen as a delicacy. But they smelled pretty terrible, and of course being black, they looked a bit freaky too. Just the smell of them - pure rotten sulphur - used to make most Westerners want to vomit. But not me. I adored them. If you put a plate of them in front of me now, my happiness would be complete. |