In the food industry, if you want to say which kind of delicious food is the exclusive taste of the Chinese people, it must be the changed egg (also known as preserved egg).

The food column "flavor world" compares it to a delicious food exclusive to Chinese people, which gathers the essence of Chinese delicious egg products.

Many Chinese food with a long history are enjoyed by Chinese people. For foreigners, it is an adventure that requires courage.

Preserved eggs, also known as variable eggs and Songhua eggs, are usually pickled with duck eggs. They have a special aroma and taste smooth and refreshing.

According to the different curing process, the common preserved eggs are divided into black and yellow.

Black is more alkaline and astringent, while yellow is lighter and softer.

Chinese people love preserved eggs, and their eating methods vary with the regional food culture.

Northerners like to cut preserved eggs into four or more pieces along the longitudinal axis, sprinkle with shredded ginger or ginger powder, and then sprinkle with vinegar salad, which is more called Songhua egg sausage. Songhua egg sausage is made of preserved egg and egg juice. It is easy to eat and does not have a strong alkali taste.

Cantonese like to put preserved eggs in porridge. People who have been to Guangdong know that the common porridge in Guangdong is preserved egg and lean meat. Cut into small pieces of preserved egg and salty lean meat, add some ginger and green onion to remove the fishy smell, and cook with white rice for hours to form a bowl of Cantonese style preserved egg and lean meat porridge. A little broken preserved egg is the indispensable soul in porridge.

Shanghai people like to use preserved eggs and bean curd into their dishes. Raw preserved eggs and tender tofu are ground into small pieces. A little soy sauce and sesame oil are added to make them very fragrant. Taiwanese also like this kind of dish. They prefer to sprinkle it with firewood fillets and scallion. Especially in hot summer, it can make the stomach cool and refreshing immediately.

In Hunan or Sichuan, where spicy food is preferred, there is a special home cooked dish called "pickled eggs with pepper". It's really not good-looking, but it's very delicious. This dish is from a snack to a big one in Hunan. It's very tasty to eat with steamed bread or noodles.

Since the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the 1940s, famous chefs from the mainland fled to Hong Kong. Hong Kong people began to eat preserved eggs. Hong Kong's Yongji restaurant's preserved egg is a famous protagonist. Gourmets who know how to enjoy it know that preserved eggs are the best match for rich Bordeaux or sparkling champagne.

In Hong Kong, preserved eggs are integrated with the characteristics of Chinese traditional pastry to the extreme. For example, the preserved egg cakes of Hengxiang cake family, an old store opened in 1920, has become a rare traditional craft handed down from generation to generation.

What surprised old artists most is that Taiwan's talent is really "skin egg control". In a CNN article, preserved egg was listed as the most disgusting food. Most Taiwanese expressed indignation and maintained preserved preserved egg. Let's see if they can make preserved eggs into a variety of creative dishes to mix and match.

In Taiwan, they also like to mix preserved eggs with meat floss, put them on pancakes, and turn into "preserved egg pancakes", "preserved egg pizza", "pickled preserved egg fried noodles" and so on.

With the change of times, our taste is becoming more and more obscene. Especially for the health problems of food, we were once far away from preserved egg, which is a kind of Chinese characteristic egg. However, when we ate preserved egg crisp in Hong Kong last year, the old artists, with this strange tradition, seemed to have taken a time shuttle and tasted the taste of childhood.

This is the biggest mark that preserved eggs leave on the tip of the Chinese tongue - it smells bad and looks bad, but if you try, the smell of preserved eggs on your tongue will probably never be forgotten in your life.