"egg" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They had a basket containing smoked sausages, preserved eggs and - because their mother was prudent as well as generous - a large jar of peach preserve that no one in the family liked very much.
- Fighting against bitter cold, but determined to cheer himself and his companions, Carvalho "had reserved with religious care, two boxes containing one pound each, of Alden's preserved eggs and milk.
- I began to feel grumpy and xenophobic, questioning a collective palate that relishes preserved eggs, pickled vegetables and lamb's viscera for breakfast.
- My favorite congee comes with slices of pork and bits of preserved egg, which has been put in brine for days until it turns black, giving it a musky yet rich flavor.
- Dawn next morning set the sky afire with a more than Wag-nerian splendour, revealing the first sluggish activity on the Kraken, and mingling with the smell of preserved eggs frying in the galley.
- Hadrosaurs had been speculated to be upland breeders due to the lack of preserved egg and hatchling material.
- Prime time is lunch, though a steady stream of breakfast customers stop in for congee ($1), a soupy rice porridge with fillings like pungent preserved eggs, and excellent pastries, including anise-scented roast-pork buns (60 cents).
- In Thai and Lao, the common word for this type of preserved egg literally means "horse urine eggs", due to this myth and the distinctive ammonia odor of century eggs:
- One of his first triumphs occurs at a street stall near his hotel in Kowloon, where he points to a preserved black egg, served with pickled sweet vegetables and a dipping sauce.
- As Ms. Young put it, "By not serving duck's blood, duck's feet or 100-year-old preserved eggs, you can make Chinese New Year's more universal rather than exclusionary."
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