How Do You Make A Century Egg?
Making a century egg involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice straw for several weeks to several months. The mixture encourages the egg to ferment and chemically change, which causes the yolk to turn green and the white to turn brown and translucent. Once the egg has been preserved for the desired amount of time, it is carefully removed from the mixture, washed and peeled before being eaten. Century eggs are a popular ingredient in many Asian dishes.