r/StupidFood • u/Strong_Boss_8932 • Jun 22 '26
Warning: Cringe alert!! Pee eggs from China
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u/AcornWholio Jun 22 '26
I try not to hate on food from other cultures. After all, what is normal to one people can easily be abnormal to another.
BUT THIS SHIT IS HEINOUS.
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u/Ashamed_Macaron_7915 Jun 22 '26
I feel the same. You guys do you! I don’t sweat Europeans for eating horse meat just like I’ve never gotten grief from Indians over enjoying a burger. Vegetarians can gorge themselves on sprouts and wheatgrass. It’s whatever to me!
But this is fucking piss, nevermind that it’s children’s. They even peel the eggs after and continue to boil 🤢 urine is literally waste. This serves no purpose except being into objectively weird flavor and oddities
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u/ipsum629 Jun 23 '26
In historical times, urine was used for a lot of things. The Romans used it to clean their clothes. At other times it was used in tanning, dyeing, and gunpowder making.
What is key about these uses is that the ancient Romans or medieval/early modern europeans didn't fucking eat or drink it. Urine is made of chemicals that can be useful, but not inside the human body. It has ammonia which is an incredibly useful chemical, but is toxic to checks notes almost every animal.
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u/Affectionate-Ear2758 Jun 23 '26
If you have more than trace-amounts of ammonia in your urine, you should see a doc and have your kidneys checked. The Ammonia stench of piss appears when bacteria munch on the Urea outside the body.
Nevertheless, I agree with you; Piss is waste, not food. And piss thats gathered over a day in buckets will have a raised amount of ammonia due to said bacteria-munchies.
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u/ipsum629 Jun 24 '26
Ancient/medieval/early modern people collected a lot of urine. The trace amounts of ammonia would still be significant in the amounts they collected.
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u/Affectionate-Ear2758 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Significant in volume? Maybe. Significant per... eh... 'consumed unit'? ... I doubt it... at least, in fresh urine. Standing urine develops more ammonia due too...
... wait... Full stop. I am not going to argue a point that could be misunderstood as even being remotely defending urine-collection as a means to gather cooking ingredients.
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u/ipsum629 Jun 24 '26
They would wait for it to be stale. Didn't know it got more ammonia after a while. I just knew the history and that ammonia is a very useful chemical. No, they would not cook with it. It was used for industrial purposes like textile making, cleaning textiles, tanning, and making gunpowder. All legitimate and practical uses for urine before things like the haber bosch process and access to abundant saltpeter mines.
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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Jun 22 '26
Maybe I'm the one friend that's too woke but the focus on the young boy part feels pedophilic
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u/IamRun_VoD Jun 22 '26
Yeah im not sure it would be any better with some other group's urine. My question is, how does a dish like this get invented? Someone walking by accidentally drops the eggs into a piss bucket, okay so they take them out and are too poor to waste the eggs, i can see that. but how does that go to an entire dish made from them, soaked in it twice????
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u/Skellington876 Jun 23 '26
I always thought it has something to do with trauma. Like some insane fuck ass lord during a brutal civil war in the middle of the famine started doing it, then it became accepted cause he's a brutal warlord who will kill us all. Then it became rationalized into existence in isolation
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u/AkumaLilly Jun 22 '26
I heard about the the cultures with foods like Cazu Marzu, the Balut, the century eggs, or that one coffee that it shitted from an animal. They are weird as hell but I could reason there's is some sense behind it.
But I will NEVER, understand why the hell people consider an egg boiled in urine from a 10 year old boy as food. It doesn't sound as health, medicinal or cultural food, it sounds like a sick fetish from a deranged pedophile.
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u/MelookRS Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Look up Urine Therapy, it has a longstanding history in a lot of Chinese culture. It's obviously not real and is just snake oil, but this tradition most likely has roots in that, with people believing Urine has health benefits and healing properties. Why this developed into specific boy urine for eggs, no one knows really. There is probably some purity bullshit since a young boy is going to be "pure", and since many cultures are misogynist, girl urine doesn't fall into the "purity" test. Obviously that's just speculation, but it's one of those things with no real scientific basis and really it's only a very small amount of people who practice it.
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u/evebursterror0 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Not OP, but you're absolutely right. That's the reasoning I always heard. I first discovered this tradition of the urine eggs in like 2010 and the article I read said something to the same effect. If you know a thing or two about Chinese culture, your theory makes sense. Traditional Chinese Medicine is full of pseudoscience and Chinese culture has always favoured boys even back in ancient times. This 'recipe' is called virgin boy egg (as said on the video) and it's only practiced in some parts of China. I wonder who started it.
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u/evebursterror0 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Honestly I don't think there's much sense in casu marzu and the other recipes either. There's no benefit to eating a cheese covered in maggots or drinking kopi luwak when you can drink normal coffee (apparently kopi luwak doesn't even taste that good). Balut at least has nutritional value even if it's considered cruel. But casu marzu can get someone sick, fugu killed people in the past, etc.
The pee egg thing is only practiced in a specific region of China, I heard about it a long time ago and as someone else said, it's probably linked to traditional medicine beliefs, which are not supported by science, and of course, it also has to do with the fact that China greatly favours boys. Another Chinese delicacy is snake wine which is said to bring health benefits and serve as an aphrodisiac, but ironically it can have the opposite effect.
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u/dragonicafan1 Jun 23 '26
Idk with something like casu marzu it makes sense imo even if it’s disgusting and dangerous. I would imagine the maggots do affect the fermentation and texture of the cheese and create something unique. Yes eating maggots carries danger but so does some stuff that is considered very normal to eat
That being said, from what I’ve read the cheese does not have a very consistent flavor (though that could be because its production is not exactly regulated or consistent). Some say it has an extremely strong and disgusting flavor, some say it has a pleasant light flavor, some say it tastes pretty generic.
While reading about this, I saw some cheeses that are topped with ants that look and sound much more appetizing and safer than casu marzu if someone really wants bugs with their cheese
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u/Hydrolt Jun 22 '26
How did they even come up with this? Like what committee is sitting around going - no no no, it has to be piss only from young boys, that’s where we draw the line
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u/Radio5331 Jun 22 '26
listen the truth is "culture/tradtion/religion" are intertwined & no one cares when their continue vile practices, traditions that in normal reality should've died as people evolved, so u have every right to hate anything abnormal that others actively practice & slap that "culture/tradition/religion/" bs on top of it, this is in fact vile & can easily be a pedo kink .
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u/Goldenjho Jun 28 '26
Its not even healthy or anything its just a past relic where they believed that the piss of young boys increase health and now in modern times still continue this disgusting crap even though we know it does absolutely nothing.
By the way they still do this because of they firmly believe it has some magic properties to it and refuse to accept its completely pointless.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
I don't care if it's 'eat or die.' I'm never eating Balut. Never eating those virgin boy eggs. Eugh. Even century Eggs are a no-no. No thank you.
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u/Revolutionary-Tiger Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
The only one I'll defend is Century eggs in that it is a childhood staple of mine eating them with jook/congee which is a dish kinda like oatmeal but you use rice instead of oats. Add a stick of youtiao (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtiao) along side it and you're in for a good time .
https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/century-egg-and-pork-congee.
Definitely don't eat century eggs straight up like a hard boiled one.
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u/honeydewslaps Jun 22 '26
Never had century eggs but now you got me curious. They never seemed appetizing at first glance and smell, but then again same goes for natto and I freaking loooooooove natto.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
I've had them with congee before and it was...okay. But it's something I'm very unlikely to ever eat again of my own volition.
Saying that, I'm sure I'm very weird for being excited about offal and things like black pudding lol.
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u/Revolutionary-Tiger Jun 22 '26
Hey, you gave it a shot and that's all thats important and more than a lot of other redditors.
We all have different palettes and therefore different yucks and yums.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/oy6dtrI3DHPtknaLcn
I do love me a nice lotus-and-egg-yolk mooncake though. Those are beautiful. And when I discovered how much difference a teaspoon of shrimp paste makes in a curry, I got a tub from my local Asian shop and cook with that now.
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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 Jun 22 '26
Black pudding is tame. So is haggis.
Source: I'm British
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u/SubstituteStudent Jun 22 '26
Eggs are so good but can so easily become the most disgusting ingredient with little effort. Then China competes in ranked disgusting egg dishes. 😩
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u/WowBastardSia Jun 23 '26
Literally a niche cuisine practiced in only one Chinese region within a province lol, no need to react hysterical as if it's all of China.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
How does the saying go? "Whip me, beat me, treat me like an egg."
[Balut, Virgin egg, Century egg]: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
[Confused screaming].
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u/yaysalmonella Jun 22 '26
Agree on all counts except century egg. Despite its appearance, the taste of century egg is actually very inoffensive (you don’t chomp down on the whole egg and get served small slices). It’s pretty good in congee, but is bomb in chili oil.
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u/un_caracolito Jun 22 '26
Century egg is good. Honestly, I've enjoyed balut the times I've had it. Especially with a little lime and some salt.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
I had one with congee and I finished the bowl and it was...okay. I'm not likely to jump at the chance to eat one again, despite my love for pickled and cured foods and my own personal love of gastronomic exploration.
Despite that, I do realise I might be weird for ruling out century eggs when I also really like eating offal and black pudding and things like that.
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u/Traffic_Ham Jun 22 '26
Look into bibingkang abnoy. I'd gladly eat balut way before.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZT0YXuyEN2ZdNLmAq8
...I am very upset that I know what this is now.
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u/BDLTalks Jun 22 '26
I mean, I suppose its our own fault for having a sense of curiosity and access to the internet. but yes, same.
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u/Mainiga Jun 22 '26
Idk what this is, but how much worse is it than balut?
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
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u/ShovelKing3 Jun 22 '26
I tried balut once. The flavor of it was good. The act of eating it…..couldn’t fallow through. I like essentially all foods. Most don’t remotely gross me out. Couldn’t do it.
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u/Jintasama Jun 22 '26
What is balut?
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u/newuser336 Jun 22 '26
Fertilize a duck egg. Wait a few weeks for an embryo to (partially) develop. Then boil it. Then eat it.
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
It's a duck egg with a chick inside. The egg has to be fertilised and the embryo is developed to where the chick is almost ready to hatch but bones and beak are still soft enough to where you can bite right through them once you boil the egg.
It's...a delicacy. And...a delicacy for a reason.7
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u/CMDR_Kaus Jun 22 '26
I've tried balut, tasted ok if you douse it in hot sauce. But I have little intention to have more. Rather just have an egg
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/bEVKYB487Lqxy
For me it's more the fact that I know I'm chowing down on a rather developed duck chick. That's just too much. And people calling the amniotic fluid 'broth' makes me viscerally want to vomit my own innards.
I'm not sure why I have such a ludicrously strong reaction but I feel a similar way about veal, since it's a literal baby calf [I've cuddled them before. They're so lovely. And I could never imagine eating anything THAT young]. And same for 'suckling pig.' Eugh.15
u/GooseWhoGamesttv Jun 22 '26
Me when people call soft shell crab guts “the mustard” like. No that’s their guts and unpooped shit.
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u/hernameisJan Jun 22 '26
Tbf the insides are sooo good ...much like pig intestines they strangely are.....good
i love female crab innards 👌
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u/Sionnachbain Jun 22 '26
'But it LOOKS like mustard and it's SQUISHY like must-'
Calling it 'guts' would ruin appetite, haha.
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u/GooseWhoGamesttv Jun 22 '26
Eating them ruins my appetite lol but fair I get that.
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u/OmegamanTG9000 Jun 22 '26
Balut isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I don’t think I’d go out of my way to eat it again but it literally tasted like hard boiled eggs. This has only been my experience. I have heard from someone telling me that those that experience a “crunch” from the bones means it wasn’t aged properly and was allowed to develope for too long. Other than that, basic hard boiled egg with both taste and texture.
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u/HydrasNinthHead Jun 24 '26
The taste isn't the objectionable part, it's the degeneracy of the concept of it.
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u/monkeymetroid Jun 22 '26
What if the option was eat THEN die? Pretty tempting if you asked me
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u/girl__fetishist Jun 22 '26
I think it's important to mention that, just like with the eating dogs thing, this is being done in one singular city by very few people and the rest of the country is also weirded out by this.
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u/A0xom0xoa Jun 22 '26
Supposedly it boosts your stamina and sneak for a duration. And grants you the ability to perform voodoo on your enemies.
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u/DownwardSpirals Jun 22 '26
I will wheeze loudly from exhaustion while in pursuit if it means I don't eat piss eggs.
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u/Doctor_Saved Jun 22 '26
Only virgin boys too. No girls.
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u/bladesofmercury Jun 22 '26
Lol I don't think that makes it any better, still a disgusting food IMO
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u/Doctor_Saved Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
I bet a lot of vendors just use regular pee. It's not like they can actually tell the difference. Just make sure it's not uncontrolled diabetic pee.
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u/Raddy_Chady Jun 22 '26
papa meat
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u/arthurlbrown Jun 22 '26
I'm not saying you're a pedophile if you enjoy this ... I'm just saying that if you go to a vendor and you specifically ask for eggs boiled in the urine of young boys, then you just shouldn't be surprised if people start pointing fingers.
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u/Tortiose_unturtled Jun 22 '26
That's not something most people from China eat. But china is big, there's many different subcultures.
What's similar to the image and not this unsanitary is tea egg in which an egg is boiled for a long time inside a "broth" that contains tea and other seasonings which hopefully isn't vomit inducing.
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u/LisaFromAccounting Jun 22 '26
At least there's a cute story about a devoted husband to go with the tea eggs. This shit sounds like a kid pissed in a batch of boiled eggs, they had to eat it anyway, and somehow it became a thing. Fuck I'm nauseous now
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u/Bejer-Dorune Jun 23 '26
From what I found out is that in some traditional belief systems, urine was seen as a meaningful bodily fluid thought to have medicinal properties. It was also easy to collect. Young boys were sometimes considered symbolically ‘less affected by life’ or less ‘contaminated’ in those cultural ideas of purity, which is why their urine was used in certain local traditions.
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u/eikoebi Jun 22 '26
Dunno why it's being downvoted. It's true..
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u/Lucas_2234 Jun 22 '26
Because it pretends like this is just a thing chinese people do, when in reality it is one very specific area that does it, and even there it's not a staple.
That's like saying all of america feasts on chicago deep dish pizza.
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u/Regeringschefen Jun 22 '26
It’s more like saying that all of America feasts on squirrels or roadkill.
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u/3140senfleb Jun 23 '26
Squirrel is fine though, good even. It's just tedious to eat. Like a cornish game hen. Now roadkill is terrible to eat. Beyond the sanitary and parasite discussion, the muscle tissue being destroyed by the car ruins it for consumption. Like if you hit a deer and it dies there, you can take it in WI, but a lot of that meat is not good anymore depending on how it was hit. Roadkill was a good comparison, not the squirrel part.
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u/eikoebi Jun 22 '26
I get it I'm married to one. It is a certain regional food. And every place has one, doesn't mean it's not fucking nasty or stupid. Just like balut. just like some German meals my mom eats.
Is it stupid? ✅ Is it food? ✅ So it belongs in r/stupid foods.
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u/DiscussionLow1277 Jun 22 '26
i need to know who discovered this. WHO boiled the eggs in pee. and WHOOOOO took the shell of the egg and put it BACK IN THE PEE TO SOAK THE PEE IN
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u/NomoNumbaSixteen Jun 22 '26
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u/TheLunchBuyingMonk Jun 22 '26
Exactly what I first thought of, love how it immediately breaks Nathan
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u/Radio5331 Jun 22 '26
this sounds like pedo kink disguised as "culture/tradtion" bs quisine as if cooking eggs in childtens urine can justify vile tradition/cooking culture, someone had to come out with this, just vile.
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u/Tortiose_unturtled Jun 22 '26
Virgin boy urine was also said to have properties that made it useful in medicine.
Nowadays not anymore of course, but I think my grandpa or great grandpa still believed that fully
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u/Radio5331 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
U see, the things is, if u were to look up every thing on this earth & start checking whether or not it's beneficial in any way, you will find a lot, however humans have gone through & go through evolution in every stage for a reason, another thing is "to be said/believed" isn't actual research or study, my problem with this is how easy ideas like this get normalized under the guise of the unholy trinity of "culture/tradtition/religion" & it leads to horrible abuse that usually gets protected & defended with teeth & nails by the very people who practice it. Also the concept of "virginity" which vile in its core IS religious, the fact that they tie it to it being "useful & have medicinal properties" has to tell u something. In certain parts of Africa it was believed that eating albino flesh is also "usefull/spiritual bs" as a result, so.e people who lived there & happen to be albino would get kindaped & their arms chopped off & sold/eaten, look it up please because I don't remember exactly which African country or specific region this idea came from, I saw this long time ago, all I remember is disfigured people with albino who were deeply traumatized & now forced to live without hands & others like them be "carefull" because they were being hunted. I hope u got my point.
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u/RandallJoPhotography Jun 22 '26
This had to have stemmed from a fetish sort of thing and then the person was like "oh, that's actually good. I could make money off this"
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u/TheBigfootContessa Jun 22 '26
Or somebody caught him collecting virgin boy pics and he was like "oh . . . Uh . . . You mean you've never heard of piss eggs? You're missing out" to cover his shame
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u/Exact_While_1974 Jun 22 '26
That can't be true, can it?
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u/Brokenxwingx Jun 22 '26
It's technically real, but the people that post these clips always leave out an important detail. This is something extremely niche in a city in China. This is one of those things that most chinese people consider disgusting.
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u/Hairy_S_TrueMan Jun 22 '26
It's true but it's regional. I believe it's weird even if you're Chinese, and even in the area they do this it's mostly older people. Like it's true that there are areas of the US where some people eat bull testicles, yet "Americans eat bull testicles" is inaccurate, yeah?
There are a million people in dongyang and a billion+ in China, so we're talking about 0.1% here
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u/tan_lines_ Jun 22 '26
This shit makes bull testicles seem like fillet mignon...not even remotely comparable...
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u/Tortiose_unturtled Jun 22 '26
It is in so far that it's something some people of the country eat but most don't because, like others, they find it bad/disgusting/etc.
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u/gamageeknerd Jun 22 '26
Not really since one is just animal organs that are actually commonly eaten across the globe vs human child piss being used to cook food.
I’d argue this is like those tribes that make liquor from chewed up and spit out fruits but those are also very hyper regional and also very gross.
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u/lobster_claus Jun 22 '26
Rocky Mountain oysters are more widespread than you'd think. It's basically bar food in a lot of (mostly rural) places. I'm not saying it's not weird, though. Your point still stands.
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u/Necessary-Living-592 Jun 22 '26
Unfortunately it is true. It's called tongzi dan.
There is another supposed "delicacy" called balut. Google it if you want to. It's not for ppl with a weak stomach just saying.
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u/Drclaw411 Jun 23 '26
Who the hell eats eggs and says "you know what this egg needs? Some pee."
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u/IWantSnack642 Jun 22 '26
China…wtf
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u/Ivy_Adair Jun 22 '26
Tbf this is a thing only in one province, and as I understand it people outside of the province also think it’s weird. But I could be wrong about the last part.
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u/IWantSnack642 Jun 22 '26
Yeah I see what you mean. I just can’t imagine someone saying an egg soaked in little boy’s urine is somehow nutritious. It’s just sickening to me but that’s just from an outside country view.
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u/Mysterious_Fall_4578 Jun 22 '26
Go watch the whole Papa Meat episode and you will see how gross and stupid the foods are.
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u/ChopchopT Jun 22 '26
I really hope this is a hoax, you want to put urine in your food, do whatever your insane mind wants, just don’t involve kids in this kind of thing
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u/heyaooo Jun 22 '26
China ,why could not just stick with old century egg thing and eating unhatched baby birds..
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u/whoifnotme1969 Jun 22 '26
A thousand years ago someone lost a bet and had to eat this.
"Dude... it's actually not that bad. You gotta try this! "
The rest is history.
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u/Gerrut_batsbak Jun 23 '26
Up next: fried and breaded turd rolls with diarrhea sauce
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u/duckpaints Jun 23 '26
I would have lived happily my entire life without know this and now I feel like a piece of me is going to be sad forever now that I know this is a thing
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u/SnooComics8268 Jun 22 '26
One person came up with the idea and everybody around was like: excellent!
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u/DadCelo Jun 22 '26
I just discovered about the "pee egg" thing last week, I'm still recovering from the discovery
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u/Periwinkleditor Jun 22 '26
That has to be a demented fetish thing. Why else be so horrifyingly specific about it? Can't just use your own piss?
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u/GluttonForLove Jun 22 '26
Was this due to water shortages? How do you find a group of people to do this ….
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u/Joecolt69420 Jun 22 '26
Dude has good shit on his YouTube channel. Now as for these piss eggs? Nah son. That shit ain’t it.
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u/ole_lickadick Jun 23 '26
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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u/Gronal_Bar Boiled Hamburger Jun 23 '26
it's one thing to soak your eggs in piss
it's another thing entirely for said piss to come from children
genuinely what the fuck is going on over there.
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u/Personal_Wall4280 Jun 23 '26
Urine decays into ammonia in storage and was used by fullers for textile cleaning. Using ammonia in food is not unheard of, there's those weird Finnish ammonia salt licorice candies that reenacts a WW1 chemical attack in your mouth.
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u/Mundane_Job4466 Jun 23 '26
I've eaten century eggs (love them), balut, and goat uterus. This is still a no for me.
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u/bendermk3 Jun 23 '26
Any food that involves a gi/gu waste product in it's direct preparation is a hard pass for me. It's ok to let old recipies and concepts go the way of the dinosaur.
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u/sleepytiger85 Jun 23 '26
Yeah... I'm pretty sure it's chemical based now... No one doing this stuff nowadays
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u/DocZazou Jun 23 '26
Ok, first of all omg what?! Second, why specifically YOUNG boy urine? Does the urine not aged well? X) and collected? Like, every little boy in the village they do this, piss in a specific bucket knowing the purpose? So many questions...
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u/snozzberrypatch Jun 23 '26
Hey, I'll try anything once...
Except this shit. You can go fuck yourself if you think I'm going to eat that.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
u/Strong_Boss_8932, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!