Boil the tea eggs for about 1 hour to really develop the flavor. If you want the tea eggs to have only a slight salty aroma, boil them for about 20 minutes. If you want the tea eggs to have a richer flavor, you need to cook them for about an hour. Whether the tea eggs taste good or not has a lot to do with the ingredients and cooking time.

Tea eggs

Tea eggs are one of China’s famous snacks and one of China’s traditional foods. They are mostly sold at stations, streets and alleys, and in places with a lot of tourists and pedestrians.

It is best to use black tea when making tea eggs, because black tea has a strong aroma but not bitterness, and is bright in color. The cooked eggs are full of aroma, uniform in color and beautiful in appearance.

Tea eggs, often referred to as tea eggs in northern China, are a processed egg product with a long tradition. In Taiwan, tea eggs are usually the flagship product of convenience stores.