OWAKUDANI, HAKONE, JAPAN, 3rd November 2010 - Somewhere on this post is a picture or two of the kind of egg I almost bought.
A cold wind blew around me and probably slapped some logic into my head.
I came back to my senses and thought of keeping my yen - after all, whether its black or white shells, its still that - an egg!
I skipped buying black eggs... going a very different way from what almost all the other people around me were doing.
Ha!... who needs 7 extra years of longevity?
Hmm...and that is on a per egg basis too....
Owakudani Nature Trail is the found in the first stop of the ropeway during its trip to Togendai in Hakone, Japan. Its the ropeway's highest point and means "Great Boiling Valley"...later pics will show proof why its called that (either that or the smell will clue you in).
[picture of the eggs being hoisted to//fro boiling area and selling area]
Interesting. I take it that the Black Eggs are those that are boiled in volcanic hot water springs.
ReplyDeleteHugs.
hi John,
ReplyDeleteI would think those are the eggs boiled indeed in the hot water. Too many people, but I did take a picture of the eggs being hoisted above our heads and taken downwards...
ok, added a pic of the quick shot I had of the eggs floating on top of our heads...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the addition.
ReplyDeleteHugs.
Wow black eggs, how exotic is that!...but maybe it's a marketing ploy for tourists?...wonder how it tastes like LOL...siguro it's good with sliced tomatoes..now am thinking "ltlog na maalat" hahahha...
ReplyDeletesimilar to Century eggs? or is it just the shell is black?
ReplyDeleteI think its just plain boiled eggs :-)
ReplyDeletebut you know, that kind of reminded me of a tv show in Japan I saw before, where they also were quite enthusiastic about boiled eggs...pero this time, the eggs were buried in sand which were placed inside big heated frying pans....
for me though, egg is egg...whether its boiled in hot water on your stove, boiled in hot springs (such as these eggs)...hehehe
I think its just the shell is black...
ReplyDeletethe eggs are placed in the hot springs all around the area...they seem to smell a bit hellish..I mean..sulphuric...LOL...
well, I don't think they've seen our pink eggs (biglang naalala sa sinabi ni Suzane...sarap nga w/ kamatis)
ReplyDeletebtw, from what I googled - You may eat eggs up to two and a half for up to seventeen and a half years, but eating a whole third is said to be highly unadvised.
ReplyDeletehala!
from the internet:
ReplyDeleteWhat accounts for this?
ReplyDeleteYou lost me at "two and a half for up to seventeen and a half."
ReplyDeleteif 1 egg = 7 years
ReplyDeletethen 2 eggs = 14 years
so 2.5 eggs x 7 years...equals 17.5 years of added longevity
it would probably be the water from the hot springs boiling away w/ all that sulfur...
ReplyDeleteBlack & White eggs ! .... how about red eggs ?? WALA sila noon cause they dont know how its made.
ReplyDeleteQUESTION : How do you make an egg RED ??
ReplyDeleteah..eh..you make it mad :-)
ReplyDeletekaya maging red w/ anger...
I always think our pink..este fuchsia eggs are interesting :-0
baka kayanin ng bulkan natin ..hehehe...
ReplyDeletesimple .... PITIKIN ng PITIKIN hanggang mamula! hehehehe ...p.s. dont ask me to give an example .
ReplyDeleteang daya!!
ReplyDeleteI was going to say to convert the egg into a Communist egg. That should make it a Red Egg.
ReplyDelete*dazed look*
ReplyDeleteI should have expected it..I should have expected it *shakes head slowly*
Girls dont have it ... kaya walang mapipitik ! hehehe
ReplyDeleteehehehe..I don't think its normal for those that have it to want it to be "pitik"...
ReplyDeleteMasakit at ... mamamaga ... kaya PULA ! hehehe
ReplyDeletetsk..tsk..poor egg...
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