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咸鸭蛋, photo 1 of 2
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Photo
Salty egg
By
Kok69
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

Photo credit

Photo
Salted duck eggs
By
Fumikas Sagisavas
Licence
CC0
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Cropped and resized

咸鸭蛋

鹹鴨蛋
xiányādàn
Also on menus as 咸蛋, 盐蛋
noun Not spicy #80,791

Measure Word

一个咸鸭蛋 gè

Meanings

  1. 1 salted duck egg

About the dish

家常菜 Home-style · 凉菜 Cold dish

A duck egg cured in brine or a salted clay paste, boiled and usually served halved in the shell. The white is very salty; the yolk is orange, firm and oily. Eaten in small bites with rice porridge or rice.

Usually contains egg

Examples

HSK 7-9
端午节我们家要吃咸鸭蛋和粽子。
Duānwǔjié wǒmen jiā yào chī xiányādàn hé zòngzi.
For the Dragon Boat Festival we eat salted duck eggs and zongzi.
HSK 7-9
高邮的咸鸭蛋蛋黄流油。
Gāoyóu de xiányādàn dànhuáng liú yóu.
The yolks of Gaoyou salted duck eggs ooze oil.

Tips

culture
高邮 in Jiangsu is the most famous producer; writer 汪曾祺's essay on Gaoyou duck eggs made the oil-oozing yolk a national icon.

Stroke Order

咸 xián
鸭 yā
蛋 dàn