hundred-year egg
| Main Entry: | hundred-year egg |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | any egg (usu. chicken) that has been preserved by being covered with a coating of lime, ashes, and salt before being shallowly buried for 100 days and which then has a pungent cheeselike flavor; also called century egg, thousand-year egg, Ming Dynasty egg, ancient egg, fermented egg, also written hundred-year-old egg |
| Etymology: | cooking |
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