century egg
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Key facts
- Alternative names
- preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg, millennium egg, black egg, blacking egg, skin egg, old egg
- Place of origin
- Hunan , China
- Main ingredients
- Egg preserved in clay , ash , salt , quicklime , and rice hulls
- Variations
- duck , chicken , or quail eggs
via Wikipedia infobox
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Alternative Chinese name Chinese松花蛋 Literal meaningpine-patterned egg
Second alternative Chinese name Chinese彩蛋 Literal meaningcolorful egg