They Look So Innocent…
The same restaurant bringing us that delicious wild boar serves up an appetizer not quite a meal but at the same time deserving a mention of its own. Restaurants all across America bring a basket of bread and butter to occupy that time between placing an order and receiving the entrée. Làng Nướng Nam Bộ delivers a small plate of trứng cút lộn or fertile quail egg. I think I prefer loads of the gut busting carbs over this lean mean protein.
Not quite as large as a duck egg of the same nasty ilk, these tiny things the size of a miniature Cadbury chocolate egg are an interesting treat. Cracking open the black and white speckled shell reveals a hard boiled fetus attached to a chalky vein filled ball of yolk. Hey, I am not going to sugar coat this one. I’m just telling it like it is.
…Until Cracked Open
I can’t help but wonder how in the world did someone determine this type of food to be a good idea. And even more so who experimented enough to learn that trứng cút lộn is best between 19 and 21 days old? Anything before 19 days and it’s just a pasty mess. Anything beyond 21 and it’s a full blown bird.
Maybe the better question is why do I do this to myself?
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