Comments on: Tea Eggs (Chinese Marbled Eggs)

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:02:29 +0000

I once had a bright orange coloured egg for a snack at a friend’s house. His Mum is Chinese so she was pretty stoked when I was wide eyed at how she made these beautiful and tasty eggs.

By: dragonmamma/naomi

dragonmamma/naomi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:45:15 +0000

I used to do this with the kids with Koolaid powder and called them dinosaur eggs.

By: yannie

yannie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:36:03 +0000

oh yar, they are YUMMY. they dont taste bitter at all!

By: yannie

yannie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:31:28 +0000

the eggs are not cracked intentionally. just boiled boiled and boiled in the tea (plus herbs) for a LONG LONG time.. like a day! den slowly the egg keeps hitting the sides till it cracks

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:34:41 +0000

@LisaL

I take it that these hard boiled eggs arn’t your cup of tea?

By: LisaL

LisaL — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:57 +0000

Yuck… with something other than tea, maybe. Tea by itself= good if it’s iced…. on an egg? Bleh.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Ahh Kalel, I see your going off the “steep” end with the puns today!

By: Kalel

Kalel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:27:01 +0000

Eggs to dye for.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:13:01 +0000

awkwardsmile, I felt the same way when Alex posted something about the amazing kudzu, since it’s so common where I live. But stuff like this is neat for people who don’t see it everyday!

By: hhype

hhype — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:25:24 +0000

I can’t remember an Easter when we didn’t crack an egg or two and do this on purpose. My grandmother would peal eggs and then dye them to make deviled eggs because then the white would have a cool colored edge why the food coloring had penetrated.

Not sure that this is neat or different or whatever it takes to get posted here however. Mostly seems obvious.

By: unohav_1

unohav_1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:45 +0000

Just this past Easter I did this with food coloring. Made BEAUTIFUL deviled eggs. They looked like porcelain.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:04:50 +0000

I welcome our alien egg overlords.

By: jacinta

jacinta — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:03:37 +0000

my mom used to make eggs like this when i was little. we use red onion peel and sweet soy sauce so it’s delicious to eat too.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:24:58 +0000

Love me some bitter tea and egg, especially if it’s this cool looking.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:05:22 +0000

You can get these at a tea shop in the mall near my work.

By: tt

tt — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:27:05 +0000

and it taste great too!!
that is, if you like tea [in general too] cause the teabag used to cook this dish is a little bitter..

By: awkwardsmile

awkwardsmile — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:59:28 +0000

Hehehe. I chuckled when I saw this, because I’m Chinese and my first thought was: ‘Why the *$(&%(# is THAT on Neato?’ before realising it looks pretty intriguing to anyone who hasn’t been eating them their whole life. Nice find Minne!

@felix: Missed out on some good stuff, there.

By: felixthecat

felixthecat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:57:45 +0000

Neat. When I was a child, I would do this with my mother, but no one ever ate the eggs. When they finally verged on being spoiled, we would leave them outside for the opossums.

By: kristine b

kristine b — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:07:29 +0000

We use onion peels (the brown ones) to dye easter eggs and they look like this on the inside if you crack them. Red cabbage or beets would make nice purply colors. Much healthier than food coloring.

By: nolly

nolly — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:42:07 +0000

I’ve also seen this done with food coloring – very pretty!