Homemade Chinese Tea Eggs

You might see these at Asian Box (in Palo Alto) or any Taiwanese Restaurant serving Beef Noodle Soup. Chinese Tea Eggs might sound scary, but its actually just a nice brine with soy sauce/black tea. 
Time: 4 hours
Ingredients: 

• 6 eggs
• 1 liter of water
• 3 tbsp of soy sauce
• 1 tbsp of salt
• 1 tbsp of sugar
• 1 dried orange peel (found this at 99Ranch or any chinese supermarket)
• 2 star anise
• 1/2 ground cinnamon
• 2 black tea bags
• 1 tbsp of barley tea

Steps:

1. place your eggs inside the pot with cold water, then wait for it to boil, once it is boiled immediately turn the stove off and keep the lid on for 10 minutes
2. place the eggs under cold water
3. then use the back of a spoon to crack the egg shells, this will help give a "marble" skin on the egg and allow some of the brine into the egg membrane
4. using the same pot of water, add all the remaining ingredients and the eggs
5. turn on the stove again and boil for 15 minutes
6. remove just the tea bags and keep the lid on right after
7. brine over night for for at least 3 hours

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