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Egg Stall on Kam Wa Street

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Egg Stall on Kam Wa Street
Submitted by Andrew Suddaby
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Andrew Suddaby

This lady was very carefully selecting duck(?) eggs - ignoring the '100 year old' ones.  Were the latter, the ones that I was treated to in 1958 that had purple yolks? 

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, November 1, 1987
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1987 Andrew Suddaby's photos
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Submitted by OldTimer on Sun, 2015-10-25 09:27.

Greetings,  I believe they were chicken eggs.  The shop keeper would verify the quality by shining through it with a light bulb. Those on the left are salted duck eggs and the black coating is salted charcoal paste.  The eggs with purple yolks (must be somewhere in this photo) are preserved eggs (100-year, 1000-year, actually it takes much less time to make) and they sell them still coated with dry mud and rice husk.  Regards,   Peter 

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Sun, 2015-10-25 15:05.

Thanks Peter.  It's very good to have my unanswered questions of so many years answered by people like you. Andrew