ummm...yeah...I would wanna eat this sicko Japanese food, just like I would like to get a disease that only bats get...whatever...(eyeroll)...do you all see now what I had to face everyday there and put up with!!! total nightmare!!! never again!!!!!!! and I'm one of those people who HARDLY LIKES ANYTHING, so just imagine what kinda hell I had to put up with!!!!!!!!!!!!(OMG, I just noticed this!!! are those like bugs and caterpillars on the end there closest to the edge!!?!?! kind of towards the right...) they sure look like it!!!!!!!!! the 2nd pic are cockroaches and some other type of bugs that they are selling on a street market there in Japan...I'm guessing somewhere in Tokyo, cause we sure didn't have that kind of stuff (street markets in Okinawa!!!) don't ever go to Japan people!!!!!! If you don't eat this way, then you are the one considered to be WEIRD!!!!!!!!!! ( OMG, so I inspected this pic more closely, and THOSE REALLY ARE BUGS ON TOP OF RICE, that the Japanese actually sell and then ACTUALLY EAT!!!!!!! I never ever saw this when I was over there, cause I wouldn't go in Japanese restaurants, I didn't care what kind of socialization was going on...they look like cock roaches, some kind of Japanese bugs, and I'm not sure of the other ones.. There are 8 different kinds of bugs there...I can hardly stand to look at it anymore...it's honestly making my skin crawl and I have to go to bed soon... :p God help us all that this really goes on in the world....yeoww... :p (sorry, I really can't shut up today...look what else I found..hope I'm not making anyone throw up... this is just another strong reason for me to totally HATE eggs even more...) Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat in China city DONGYANG, China (Reuters) - It's the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.
But that's just the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents.
Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in "virgin boy eggs", a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10.
There is no good explanation for why it has to be boys' urine, just that it has been so for centuries.
The scent of these eggs being cooked in pots of urine is unmistakable as people pass the many street vendors in Dongyang who sell it, claiming it has remarkable health properties.
"If you eat this, you will not get heat stroke. These eggs cooked in urine are fragrant," said Ge Yaohua, 51, who owns one of the more popular "virgin boy eggs" stalls.
"They are good for your health. Our family has them for every meal. In Dongyang, every family likes eating them."
It takes nearly an entire day to make these unique eggs, starting off by soaking and then boiling raw eggs in a pot of urine. After that, the shells of the hard-boiled eggs are cracked and they continue to simmer in urine for hours.
Vendors have to keep pouring urine into the pot and controlling the fire to keep the eggs from being overheated and overcooked.
Ge said he has been making the snack, popular due to its fresh and salty taste, for more than 20 years. Each egg goes for 1.50 yuan ($0.24), a little more than twice the price of the regular eggs he also sells.
Many Dongyang residents, young and old, said they believed in the tradition passed on by their ancestors that the eggs decrease body heat, promote better blood circulation and just generally reinvigorate the body.
"By eating these eggs, we will not have any pain in our waists, legs and joints. Also, you will have more energy when you work," said Li Yangzhen, 59, who bought 20 eggs from Ge.
The eggs are not bought only at street stalls. Local residents are also known to personally collect boys' urine from nearby schools to cook the delicacy in their homes.
The popularity of the treat has led the local government to list the "virgin boy eggs" as an intangible cultural heritage.
But not everyone is a fan. Chinese medical experts gave mixed reviews about the health benefits of the practice, with some warning about sanitary issues surrounding the use of urine to cook the eggs.
Some Dongyang residents also said they hated the eggs.
"We have this tradition in Dongyang that these eggs are good for our health and that it would help prevent things like getting a cold," said Wang Junxing, 38. "I don't believe in all this, so I do not eat them."
(Editing by Elaine Lies and Paul Casciato)
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