Chinese Tea Eggs

                Get the right ingredients, a bit of patience and you'll get very tasty, fragrant eggs.
       

          Inspiration: youtube
       Ingredients
       20 eggs and 1 teaspoon salt
       2 English breakfast tea bags
       1 handful Oolong chinese tea leaves
       1 Taiwanese Spice bag ( you can get from Asian groceries)
       100ml soya sauce
       1 handful rock sugar
       3 or 4 bay leaves
       2 star anise
       1 cinnamon stick

main ingredients

with one teapsoon salt, cook 20 minutes.

all ingredients added in 

after 3 times of 20 minutes cook and 20 minutes away from the heat.
It's finally done.
Worth waiting though..:)

    Method
    1.  Wash all the eggs.  Place them in a saucepan with water just slightly over the eggs, add in one teaspoon of salt.  Once it comes to the boil, turn to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes (with lid on).

    2.  Remove from heat.  Let it sit for 20 minutes ( with lid on).  Next, rinse the eggs with water to bring down the temperature.  Using the back of the spoon, hit the bottom of the each egg 3 times, to allow the flavor of the spices to seep into the eggs.

   3.  Transfer eggs back to the saucepan, pour in all other ingredients, add in room temperature water to just slightly cover the eggs, cover the lid, once it comes to boil then reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20 minutes.  Now, remove saucepan from heat.   Let it rest ( with lid on) for another 20 minutes.  Repeat the process 3 times altogether.

  4.  Enjoy!

note:  let them continue to sit in the spice water overnight,  gently heat them up again on the stove, you will get an even stronger and better flavour,  and possibly a lovely marbled look :)  Also take note, try to always use medium low heat, that way the eggs will not turn out too "hard".