Duck Eggs
Wednesday, 27. June 2007, 17:54:37
I bought duck eggs. In Japan we often eat quail eggs, but not duck eggs. So it was the first experience for me. I think Chinese preserved eggs (black ones) are duck eggs, but I have never seen them before being preserved.
Let me introduce you to my duck egg. The white one is duck's, the brown one is hen's L size egg. The duck eggs were larger than hen eggs. The colour of the shell is not as white as the hen's white eggs, but a bit blue-greyish. They don't look very attractive, as not being uniform both in colour and in shape.
I poached the eggs with rice and ate it with Greek butter beans called "gigantes" (meaning giants). They had denser flavour than hen eggs and tasted very nice.
I will try to eat them in other ways in future.
Let me introduce you to my duck egg. The white one is duck's, the brown one is hen's L size egg. The duck eggs were larger than hen eggs. The colour of the shell is not as white as the hen's white eggs, but a bit blue-greyish. They don't look very attractive, as not being uniform both in colour and in shape.
I poached the eggs with rice and ate it with Greek butter beans called "gigantes" (meaning giants). They had denser flavour than hen eggs and tasted very nice.
I will try to eat them in other ways in future.
WIDGETIZE
ngsinh # 27. June 2007, 19:05
추유호(Chu Yuho) # 28. June 2007, 04:29
Kayoko # 28. June 2007, 10:41
I have tried Vietnamese food at Vietnamese restaurants in Tokyo, and I liked the food. I don't know if I like it if I eat it in Viet Nam.
Hi Zariski,
So you imagine. But actually they taste somehow different. According to what I read on internet, duck egg yolk is richer in fat, and egg white in richer in protain than hen egg. Do try, if you have chance, and tell me what you think.
ngsinh # 28. June 2007, 18:48
Kayoko # 28. June 2007, 19:26
Thank you for the invitation!
I remembered that the Vietnameses eat the chicks still inside the egg shell! Will it be a part of the dinner you offer to me?
ngsinh # 28. June 2007, 19:42
And with more special dish...Are U trying to enjoy "fried crab roll", "water morning-glory soup", "Mullet fish cook with brine"...? Are U Japanese ?
Kayoko # 29. June 2007, 15:49
Yea, I am Japanese living in UK.
I have never tried any of the dishes you mentioned. What I have eaten and I can remember are: raw spring rolls (very popular in Japan and you can even find in supermarkets), e2l cooked with green bean flour vermicelli and egg, and pho noodles (also very famous). All lovely.
Unfortunately there is no Vietnamese restaurant in Birmingham, but I guess there are in London.
Anyway, I am really curious how the chicks in the shell taste like....
Kayoko # 30. June 2007, 13:21
offspring # 30. June 2007, 15:16
ngsinh # 30. June 2007, 19:02
ngsinh # 30. June 2007, 20:00
Kayoko # 1. July 2007, 12:48
Yes, the duck eggs are yummy. I bought some again.
Hi Ngsinh,
Chicks can be yummy, but they are so small that it might be fussy to eat.
Now I am going to your blog to collect the gift!
ngsinh # 1. July 2007, 19:27
Can U give me a your portrait picture, please? First thanks!
At Vietnam now, where happening epidemic diseases about "H5N1 virus" and everybody cann't eating chicks when it still alive (in "how the chicks in the shell taste like...")
Kayoko # 3. July 2007, 19:58
I am old; i have lived almost half of my expected lenghth of life. I am afraid I don't have any portrait photo, as I don't like to be photographed. I might post one, when I snatch some from my husband.
I thought that you need to cook the chicks to eat it. So you people eat them raw? Chick sashimi?