Quail eggs

Potato galettes, served with quail eggs

Quail eggs are the eggs of quails, which are edible and widely considered a delicacy. As quails has already been farmed extensively for long, their eggs has also been always readily available and consumed across the world.

Culinary Uses

Quail egg (left) as compared to a chicken egg (upper right) and a duck egg (lower right) (the quail egg being the smallest), in an adult human's hand

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  Pickled and smoked quail eggs at Noma restaurant in Copenhagen
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  Raw quail egg yolk served over chunks of maguro (raw bluefin tuna) at a sushi restaurant in Naugatuck
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  Skewered quail eggs and chicken offal satays in Indonesia
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  Kwek kwek, deep-fried quail eggs in batter, a popular street food snack in the Philippines

Asia

• In China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, they are often braised and served with rice and Braised pork rice or siu mai: packaged, cooked and processed quail eggs are a commonly available snack supermarkets, convenience stores and street vendors.
• In Japan, they are sometimes used raw or cooked as tamago in sushi and often found in bento lunches.
• In Korea, large, inexpensive bags of boiled quail eggs are sold in grocery stores.
• In Vietnam, bags of boiled quail eggs are sold on street stalls as inexpensive beer snacks.
• In Philippines, kwek-kwek is a popular street-food delicacy, which consists of soft-boiled quail eggs dipped in orange-colored batter before being skewered and deep-fried.
• In Indonesia, small packages of hard-boiled quail eggs are sold by street vendors as snacks, and skewered quail eggs are sold as satay to accompany main dishes such as soto and bubur ayam.

Americas

• In Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, a single hard-boiled quail egg is a common topping on hot dogs and hamburgers, often fixed into place with a toothpick; They are also believed to be aphrodisiac and sometimes used as a home remedy against erectile dysfunction.

See also

• Gull eggs
• Plover eggs
• Smoked eggs
• Quail as food