Century egg

thumb|250px|A century Egg

Cuisines | Cuisine of China

The (a.k.a. preserved egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg; Chinese: 皮蛋; pinyin: pídàn or Chinese: 松花蛋; pinyin: sōnghūadàn) is a Chinese delicacy made by preserving duck (or less commonly chicken) eggs in a mixture of charcoal and lime for (despite the name) around 100 days. It is greenish in color, and has a creamy cheese-like flavor and strong aroma.