In the U.S., quail eggs are treated as gourmet foods, gracing the pages of magazines like Martha Stewart Living and Gourmet. But in Vietnam, they're the cheapest eggs you can buy, much more so than chicken eggs. You can devil them, boil them, even pickle them, if you like. And because they're so small (about a quarter the size of a chicken egg), they're great as finger foods or appetizers. But their shells, speckled in a variety of colors, also make great table decorations.