Freebird…

I think Gerrie would be particularly interested in this post. You see, she had always been asking us here to get hold of those free range eggs and send/carry them all the way to Kuching for her.

Free range? Well, for the uninitiated, free range chicken would be those left to run around like those in the kampung (village) and fed on corn and other natural stuff – none of those processed chicken feed…and these chickens would produce free range chicken eggs which are supposedly healthier than other types of chicken eggs. Such eggs were very hard to come by and they came in all sizes…some almost the size of quail eggs, I heard…and they were not cheap either. 60 sen each initially…and the last I heard the price had gone up to 80 sen or something like that.

Well, they have now commercialised the production and sale of free range eggs, otherwise called kampung chicken eggs and they are available at some of the supermarkets in town…

As you can see, they are a lot smaller than normal eggs and the colour of the shell is very pale…

…but it looks pretty much the same inside…

…except that the yolk has a darker shade of orange…and when I fried some that day for my popiah, I found the omelette a lot more yellow than usual.

As for the price, my missus said it was RM5.00 for a pack of 10 at The Marketplace (Delta Mall)…but my sis saw some selling for RM6.80 at a mini-supermarket at Taman Damai. Ummm…I think I’ll take my sister’s word for it – she’s a lot more dependable where money is concerned. LOL!!! I guess that works out to almost 70 sen each.

So, Gerrie…how many dozen do you want? I’ll be going to Kuching sometime in mid-April…