First, in 2002 the egg industry set new animal welfare guidelines, forcing farmers to give their hens more room to cluck, in turn cutting the number of birds able to be housed.

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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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Down another staircase, into another windowless room, where dishes arrived: pork braised in brown sauce, bok choy, egg-drop soup, spicy chicken.

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Gettle likes a 1950s palette, so she chose robin's-egg-blue paint for the main hallway, pale yellow for the kitchen and pink in the dining room.

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If you or your child develops anaphylaxis after egg exposure, you or your child will need an emergency epinephrine shot and a trip to the emergency room.

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