Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: peeled preserved eggs, whole and halved, with amber whites and gray-green yolks.

Preserved egg

皮蛋Pídàn

A cured egg with translucent brownish white and a dark greenish yolk.

Type
Eggs

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A cured egg with translucent brownish white and a dark greenish yolk.

In the kitchen

Cooked in Nanchang pork-patty soup.

Soft-yolk and firm-yolk forms occur; differs from an ordinary boiled egg.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有皮蛋吗?

Does this dish contain Preserved egg?

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