Cow's eye egg
By nawala
@nawala123 (21400)
Indonesia
August 20, 2026 3:42pm CST
In my country, sunny side egg is called "telur mata sapi". "Telur" means egg, "mata" means eye and "sapi" means cow. It is little bit confusing for foreigner but it is a fact.
Some food or snacks are named after something that don't have any relation with the food.
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@Traceyjayne (13133)
• United Kingdom
12h
In the UK it’s just called a fried egg.
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@nawala123 (21400)
• Indonesia
11h
We have some terms for it but that is the most weird
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@Traceyjayne (13133)
• United Kingdom
11h
@nawala123 why so …. Are you not frying it ?
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@nawala123 (21400)
• Indonesia
10h
@Traceyjayne we fry it. But the name of teh does not indicate that
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@rsa101 (41724)
• Philippines
6h
Interestingly, "mata" means "eye" in Filipino too. I enjoy sunny side up eggs, especially for breakfast, and prefer them perfectly cooked with the yolk semi-cooked. Sometimes, when the eggs aren’t fresh, the yolk breaks and spills over, making the sunny side up look more like scrambled eggs.
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@rsa101 (41724)
• Philippines
5h
@nawala123 True I know the word salamat is common in Malay and Indonesa but they have different meaning. Ours mean Thank you when we say salamat. Yours is different in what it means selamat.
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@nawala123 (21400)
• Indonesia
5h
indonesian and tagaloq share many similar words because ours are asiatic langauge
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@nawala123 (21400)
• Indonesia
8h
sometimes we joke about it, why don't we call it "mata gajah", or eye of elephant. elephant is much bigger than cow
