Grandma bought a box of century eggs last week. Apparently she overheard my conversation with my sister that I wanted to make some congee and thought that century eggs would make a nice side dish. How nice of her. 
I took the opportunity to take a picture of the egg and the snowflake-like patterns that sometimes appear on the “egg white”.
snowflake on century egg
Can you make out the pattern?
As a child, I was always fascinated by these patterns on the century egg. Why does these patterns appear on century eggs? It is a mysterious and beautiful question.
Planning to cook with century egg? Try these 2 century egg recipes.
