Double-Yolked Happiness

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My Mum ordered a batch of double-yolked salted duck eggs and gave 2 of them to me.  This was the second time I’m cracking open an egg with 2 yolks.  The first time was a few months ago and it was a surprise as I didn’t expect it.  I cracked open a chicken egg and was surprised to see two yolks in it.

This time round, it’s a duck egg.  A salted duck egg.

I couldn’t use the duck egg to make char koay teow because it is salted duck’s egg as opposed to a regular duck’s egg, so I decided to make a simple dish of steamed minced pork with eggs instead.

See the 2 yolks in the duck egg in the top left?  Compare that to the 2 chicken eggs in the other bowl.

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I had to cut the yolk up into several small pieces before placing them in the steaming dish with the minced pork.

I was worried my kids would not like this dish, but they did! Yay!  It goes really well with rice 🙂

Have you seen an egg with 2 yolks before?  Apparently the ducks were bred to lay these double-yolked eggs.  Not sure how they could guarantee its occurrence though.

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3 Responses to Double-Yolked Happiness

  1. rinnah says:

    o.0 How on earth did they breed the ducks to ensure that they’d produce double yolked eggs all the time?

    The Giddy Tigress says: I dunno, Rinnah. I tried googling it but could find nothing yet…

  2. patrick says:

    mutation is the answer…….

    The Giddy Tigress says: No la…it’s not uncommon to get these eggs, it’s how twins are produced, no? But how they guarantee it is a question mark.

  3. Adino says:

    Wow I never knew you could find double yoke eggs, what more buying a whole batch of double yoke eggs. Is that what the double yoke mooncake manufacturers use?

    The Giddy Tigress says: Not sure, but I think for mooncakes, they use 2 different eggs. I could be wrong 😛

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