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    ‘Virgin Boy Eggs’? I’ll Pass

    By PDX Food Dude Last Update March 31, 2012 1 Comment

    Photo- Steve Johnson

    (Reuters) – It’s the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.

    But that’s just the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favoured by local residents.

    Basins and buckets of boys’ urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in “virgin boy eggs”, a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10.

    There is no good explanation for why it has to be boys’ urine, just that it has been so for centuries.

    The scent of these eggs being cooked in pots of urine is unmistakable as people pass the many street vendors in Dongyang who sell it, claiming it has remarkable health properties.

    Shudder. MCZ? MSG? Anyone? You can read the rest of the story here. It’s quite… alarming.

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    1. Cochino says

      April 1, 2012 at 11:19 am

      I’ve eaten them and they are not bad.

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