Mountain tortise, frog in the well AMDK disgusted by half boiled eggs after Qfeatures S'pore breakfast set.

[The_King]

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Screenshots from a video of a United States-based food vlogger looking shocked after seeing the soft-boiled eggs included in a kaya toast set in Singapore.
 

• A video of a tourist enjoying a kaya toast set in Singapore has recently gone viral for focusing on its unique soft-boiled eggs
• Many international viewers have expressed disgust at the eggs, calling them "medium rare", "raw" and "snotty"
• They also raised concerns about the risk of salmonella, a type of bacteria and leading cause of food-borne illnesses that can be found on raw eggs
• Singaporeans and Malaysians were baffled by the negative responses and jumped in to defend the dish

SINGAPORE — It is no secret that Singaporeans love a good kaya toast and eggs breakfast set, but for the rest of the world, it seems that not everyone is a fan of the beloved soft-boiled eggs.
A video of the breakfast, filmed by United States-based food vlogger that goes by the name "United Cuisines", has recently gone viral on social media with many international viewers expressing disgust at the "snotty eggs".
First posted on his YouTube channel on Nov 27 last year, the 44-second video shows the vlogger ordering a kaya toast set at a Toast Box shop. Seated at a table, he then taps one of the eggs with a spoon to crack its shell.
As the video zooms in on his confused face upon cracking the egg, he narrates: "When ordering boiled eggs in Singapore, you might be in for a surprise, just like I was a while back when attempting to peel them for the very first time."
United Cuisines then describes the breakfast set and goes into detail about how the soft-boiled eggs are made.

"The eggs don't harden as much as we are used to, yielding a rather soupy consistency," he explains. "They are best enjoyed with a sprinkle of salt and pepper as well as some dark soy sauce."
He concludes that it is a "delightful, sweet and savoury twist on boring morning eggs and a wonderful new way to enjoy them".

As of Thursday (Feb 8) morning, the YouTube video has attracted 8.6 million views and 3,200 comments, while a repost of the same video on United Cuisines' TikTok account on Dec 10 has garnered 3.7 million views and 1,400 comments.

Despite the vlogger's positive review, the video drew mixed reactions on YouTube and TikTok, with many international viewers calling the soft-boiled eggs a "huge no" and declaring that they would never try such a dish.

A top comment on TikTok went: "As a person who hates soft-boiled eggs or runny yolk eggs, this is my personal nightmare."

Some said that such eggs — which they called "raw" and "medium rare" — would most likely make them throw up or give them "explosive diarrhoea".

They also raised concerns about the risk of salmonella, a type of bacteria and leading cause of food-borne illnesses worldwide that, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) states, can be found on raw meat, dairy products, poultry and eggs.
On the other hand, Singaporeans and Malaysians were baffled by the negative responses.

One TikTok user wondered: "Why does everyone think this is disgusting? It's so tasty, you just gotta try it, bro."

Another questioned: "It's half-boiled eggs? Doesn't the rest of the world eat it? "

Some felt that people were being too critical and applying double standards simply because of cultural differences, writing: "Just because you're not used to it doesn't render it disgusting or dumb."

On YouTube, one user ranted: "Americans love a rare steak. Japanese can eat raw chicken because they know how to raise their poultry clean.

"The whole world has eaten raw fish in one form or another, sushi, ceviche. The French serve tartare. And bodybuilders break raw eggs into their smoothies. What the **** is the big deal???"

Others pointed out that soft-boiled eggs are clearly cooked because the egg whites are white rather than translucent as they are in raw eggs. In addition, eggs in Singapore are "safe to be consumed raw or even when it's this runny" because they are pasteurised and undergo strict tests.

One Singaporean YouTube user said: "If they contain salmonella, they are rejected. And if they have already been released into the market, (suppliers) will do a public recall of the product."

SFA's website states that as part of its accreditation criteria, egg farms need to be free of salmonella enteritidis as well as have in place strong biosecurity measures.

Both imported and domestic supplies of eggs are subject to SFA's food safety surveillance programme and farms will be suspended if salmonella enteritidis is detected.

Another camp suggested that the confusion might have arisen from United Cuisines referring to the eggs as "boiled eggs" throughout his video.

A top comment on YouTube read: "As a Malaysian, we don't just call them boiled eggs because we use that for different things. We refer to them as half-boiled or soft-boiled."

In reply, one American user remarked: "Soft-boiled in America has to do with the yolk, so the whites are always cooked but soft, medium and hard have to do with how you want the yolk to be."

After the success of his initial video, United Cuisines posted an update on YouTube last month titled, "Asian Half Boiled Eggs Recipe", teaching viewers how to prepare and enjoy the eggs at home.

Singaporeans and Malaysians also gathered in the comments section to rave about how "delicious" the dish is and to thank United Cuisines for enjoying and sharing the countries' food and culture with others.

As one YouTube user put it: "You have to get the full Singapore experience by ordering it at a kopitiam (coffee shop) and getting yelled at in Mandarin by the aunties selling it."

[ManOfTheHour]

Looks like an idiot

[noobmaster]

8 minutes ago, ManOfTheHour said:

Looks like an idiot

Looks like the type that some equally idiotic spgs will like 

[pigpigoink]

ok la, different culture.

[The_King]

8 hours ago, pigpigoink said:

ok la, different culture.

Amdk logic

 

 mayo using raw egg York ok, can eat

 

Poack egg can

 

Make Ice cream with raw egg York can

 

 

Half boiled egg cannot

 

 

[zendude]

He wants to be Ip Man 2 twister? Or Ip Man 4 Barton? 

[aaur4man]

i eat soft boil eggs for muscles

[DynamiteZerg]

Must be a slow news day to post such crap as news