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Originally Posted by steven
I've probably seen sotboiled eggs more than raw eggs for breakfast in Japan.
... I've never cracked open a softboil egg myself as they're always ready-made, or so to speak, in a bowl when ordered.
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Yeah, that's 温泉卵, Japanese equivalent of poached egg.
温泉卵 - Google Search
They are yummy too. drool
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Originally Posted by MMM
I believe it is illegal to serve raw egg in most of the US right now. I developed quite a taste for raw egg over rice, raw egg with shabu shabu and the soft boiled egg in Japan. My American friends think I am nuts. We used to think tomatoes were poisonous, too.
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I can order raw eggs at my local Japanese restaurant. When I do, I hide it from American guys like I'm smoking something funny. It's true it can be slightly dangerous though. The shell sometimes has salmonella. But in 17 years living in the states and the UK, I had hundreds of raw eggs , and never had a single incident of food poisoning, so I deem it fairly safe. People thought the Japanese were crazy to eat raw fish with rotten soy bean sauce, i.e. Sushi, just 20 years ago. May be raw eggs will be "in" in 10 years... umm... actually, probably not.