Our Tottori-born reporter buys some “sand eggs” cooked at insanely high temperatures to determine just how egg-citing they are. Ikuna wasn’t planning on buying anything, especially since all of the local products were familiar to her. Were they something that only people in the eastern part of the prefecture, where the sand dunes are located, knew about? ▼ The sand eggs have a high potential for being souvenirs since they don’t need refrigeration and have a long shelf-life. She again marveled at how similar, but different, the sand eggs were from regular boiled eggs.