Unusual Japanese mains include combinations such as foie gras, kale, edamame and pumpkin seeds, or Texas quail, yellow beans, Chinese artichokes, curry and quail egg.

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Dishes like pork and shrimp dumplings topped with a hard-boiled quail egg are so popular that diners will crowd around as soon as carts enter the dining room.

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There was a bison tartare, which came buried under a soft-boiled quail egg, and was meant to be mixed all together with the gouda cheese and rosemary mustard vinaigrette that were included.

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Has a quail egg ever stayed this runny?

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But the brothers' success spawned legions of imitators, and the quail-egg market was saturated.

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There was a flowerpot filled with edible mulch, from which we "harvested" carrots and radishes, a ceramic egg containing two tiny smoked quail eggs nestled on a bed of smoldering hay.

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