What kind of critter is this?

[Iain]

My girlfriend's Chinese mother has tasked me with the purchase of some chinese 'century eggs'. Two things:

1. I hope no hunting is involved. Seems to me 100 days in the ground could do bout anything to an egg.

2. I hope that this is not the beginning of a 'tasks for my daughter's English boyfriend' deal and task two is going to involve eating said eggs.

 

[JohnKSa]

Put a slightly opened box of baking soda in your fridge.

Maybe the sauce I got was extra strong, but it would have taken NUCLEAR powered baking soda to tame this stuff.

Anybody want a bunch of fish sauce flavored baking soda?

 

[standingbear]

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Agggghhhhh. This thread has brought back some nasty memories. A friend that had gone to Korea stopped by my house to drop off some beer he had brought back. I wasn't home at the time and my wife later told me there was some Korean beer in the fridge for me. Not knowing what was in the bottles was Soju, I opened one and took a large gulp thinking it was beer and just about puked. Thinking your going to get beer and instead getting a mouthful of white gas is not good.

I bought some fish sauce for a Thai recipe and made the mistake of tasting some. Bad move. The smell of that stuff reminds me of the stench that would arise from when we used to catch carp in the Milwaukee river and throw them in huge piles during the summer.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Yeah, when I first opened the bottle of fish sauce I thought it had gone bad, too.

Then I read just how much salt is in it, and there's no way in hell that it could ever go bad!

As for making fishing bobbers out of quills, they are hollow, so I suppose you could.

If you, or your dog, ever gets nailed by quills you should first cut the bottom off. Otherwise, when you grab them, you'll compress the air in them and make the quill swell and grab all that much harder.

 

[MeekandMild]

Aren't century eggs the ones they soak in asphalt?