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Dare you try 'virgin egg' cooked in boy's urine?
By Pan Zheng |
March 11, 2011, Friday
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AS the spring is setting in, a strange smell begins to permeate in the air in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province as locals are eating the seasonal "virgin egg."
Virgin eggs are actually eggs cooked in the urine of virgin boys. Most outsiders are appalled at the idea. But virgin eggs are selling well in every street corner of Dongyang. Costing 1.5 yuan each, they are often sold out, Qianjiang Evening News reported.
The bizarre custom is even touted as the city's intangible cultural heritage as Dongyang people say it has the taste of the spring.
These two weeks, schoolboys in Dongyang City need to pee into plastic barrels placed outside their classrooms, which are collected by nearby residents. Local teachers accepted the practice and even reminded the boys not to pee into the barrels if they are sick.
According to the egg sellers, cooking virgin eggs is just like cooking tea eggs with right heat and time.
"It's so delicious that I can eat 10 eggs a day," said a woman surnamed Liu, who moved to Dongyang several years ago and developed a taste for virgin egg. "I had never eaten it before I came here, but I got addicted to it now."
However, not all Dongyang people are interested in it. One local resident surnamed Li said he never tasted it. "I can't stand the smell. It's awful."
In eyes of many Dongyang people, virgin egg is a perfect tonic for spring. Egg sellers will tell you that it helps to prevent springtime drowsiness and heatstroke in the summer.
However, doctors' opinions vary a lot. Wu Yunhua, a director at the Dongyang Central Hospital told the newspaper that urine contains a kind of crystal that can "diminish the internal heat of human body" and stop bleeding.
But Huang Jian, a physician and the director of Jinhua Central Hospital, contested that there's nothing good for health in the urine. "After all, it is a waste from the body."
Virgin eggs are actually eggs cooked in the urine of virgin boys. Most outsiders are appalled at the idea. But virgin eggs are selling well in every street corner of Dongyang. Costing 1.5 yuan each, they are often sold out, Qianjiang Evening News reported.
The bizarre custom is even touted as the city's intangible cultural heritage as Dongyang people say it has the taste of the spring.
These two weeks, schoolboys in Dongyang City need to pee into plastic barrels placed outside their classrooms, which are collected by nearby residents. Local teachers accepted the practice and even reminded the boys not to pee into the barrels if they are sick.
According to the egg sellers, cooking virgin eggs is just like cooking tea eggs with right heat and time.
"It's so delicious that I can eat 10 eggs a day," said a woman surnamed Liu, who moved to Dongyang several years ago and developed a taste for virgin egg. "I had never eaten it before I came here, but I got addicted to it now."
However, not all Dongyang people are interested in it. One local resident surnamed Li said he never tasted it. "I can't stand the smell. It's awful."
In eyes of many Dongyang people, virgin egg is a perfect tonic for spring. Egg sellers will tell you that it helps to prevent springtime drowsiness and heatstroke in the summer.
However, doctors' opinions vary a lot. Wu Yunhua, a director at the Dongyang Central Hospital told the newspaper that urine contains a kind of crystal that can "diminish the internal heat of human body" and stop bleeding.
But Huang Jian, a physician and the director of Jinhua Central Hospital, contested that there's nothing good for health in the urine. "After all, it is a waste from the body."
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