Can You Eat Salted Egg Without Cooking It?

Salted duck eggs are a classic Chinese side dish, and a traditional way to preserve fresh eggs. They’re made by curing eggs in salt for about a month.

We went to a salted duck egg factory in Jiangsu Province, where there’s a town famous for them, to learn how they’re made.

0:00 Ways to eat salted egg
1:19 How to make salted egg
2:19 Chemical reaction inside the egg
4:12 What are the best salted eggs like?
5:58 How Zhou Yujun's passion started

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Producer: Clarissa Wei
Videographer: Shirley Xu
Editor: Joel Roche

Music: Audio Network