"Just like mother used to make."
Perhaps he'd find them more savory with some soy sauce and a few green onions on the side:
Taiwanese food critics and gastronomists called a report on century eggs by an American on CNN’s iReport “unfair,” saying it undervalued the nature of the dish.
“Awful . . . It tastes like something that used to be an egg, but made some really horrible choices,” the iReporter said of century eggs.
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Century eggs, also known as pi dan (皮蛋), are made by wrapping the eggs of ducks and chickens in a mixture of clay, ash, salt and various traditional medicines for a period ranging from several weeks to several months.
By all accounts, there were even charges of racism leveled at the food reviewer, for his "bigotry" in not finding the Taiwanese delicacy to his liking!
While one fully expects Chinese nationalists to descend to such levels of Sino-centric parochial lunacy, it is somewhat disappointing to see Taiwanese reacting along the same lines. And rather counter-productive, given Taiwan's (probably unrealistic) ambitions of one day becoming a foreign tourist mecca.
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