More Than An Egg

It is simply an egg, nothing more, but take a close smell to this egg, you may know, it’s not only an egg but with tea flavor in it. Many people take this tea flavor egg as breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack or dinner, or place it next to the rice in lunch box. The egg might looks pretty simple, but people like it as appetizer; we call it “Tea Flavor Egg” in Traditional Chinese.

What make the egg turn into brown color is a tea bag and a bag with Chinese medicine, or some recipes make with only one Chinese medicine bag. Other materials are slat, soy souse, water and eggs. After all materials are prepared, put all together and boil about one hour, the egg’s appearance will gradually turn into brown color.

Look at this beautiful egg, it looks like painting on it; the egg appearance is actually imprint the egg shell when boil with all materials.

It doesn’t change much inside of egg, but it taste and smell differently. The egg accompany with strong Chinese medicine and tea flavor, it doesn’t taste salty even add soy souse and salt together.

Tea Flavor Egg is easy to see everywhere in Taiwan, such as convenient store, vendor and night market or in lunch box. However, what you can expect is when finish the whole egg, your teeth certainly will remain with tea flavor in your mouth.

Here is a simply way to teach you how to make Tea Flavor Egg: