Virgin boy eggs a spring taste treat in China city

(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."

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linly [reuters.com]

Think of all the money they're pissing away on those eggs.

I think I'll just suffer from heat stroke.

This makes me want to also have some soup... Cream of Sum Yung Gai

I thought this would be about the horse urine eggs, which isn't really horse urine... but this is just um not right.

I can't believe this is real. But then again I couldn't believe that urnine lady on my strange addictions was real either.

"Virgin boy eggs."


That name should be in the title, vec!


I can't stop laughing.

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vec didn't want rayzac to get too excited.

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I almost put it in the title

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I'm disappointing in you, son. What did I tell you about letting other men take advantage of you?

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