I can’t pinpoint my first experience with century eggs, but I’ve been consuming them my whole life. Bouncy, black, and semi-transparent, they are a reliable addition to congee, rice bowls, and ...

Chinese people have been eating century eggs for hundreds of years. In Chinese, the eggs are called 松花蛋 (sōnghuā dàn), a rather poetic moniker that means "pine flower eggs," as especially high-quality ...

In Chinese and many other Asian cultures, pidan, or the century eggs are considered comfort food. They are prepared by preserving duck or sometimes chicken eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, ...

Fermentation turns these green and black preserved eggs into real Chinese comfort food. These green and black preserved eggs don’t really look like food, but the chemistry of fermentation turns pidan, ...