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Century egg is mainly eaten at Spring Festival, weddings, birthdays, and other special occasions. It is a hard-boiled egg that is left to preserve for a few weeks to a month (or more). The "white" looks like jello and it is slippery. Personally, I think the legends are just the Chinese way to get their kids to eat weird stuff. I also had Green Eggs & Ham in third grade, but that was just food coloring. That was much better than century egg.
Sounds like it was a pretty bad, haha. That's happened to me before with various foods before. I got used to them... but maybe century egg is just one of those things that would be better not made. But still, it's a green egg... That's almost right out of Dr. Seuss. Did it feel like slimy or something? I imagine the egg isn't cooked before it's preserved.
Pídàn is best if you don't taste it, in my opinion. My Chinese tutor had me try it when I was 16. He was the one that told me the history of it. I swallowed it whole, because the smell was much worse than how it looks.
