茶叶卤肉蛋 Taiwan Lu Rou Five Spice Meat Eggs

A lazy Sunday standby at home, waiting for call whether to activate me or not.... That kind of feeling is equally as bad as in jail waiting to be sentenced. Trying to distract myself from thinking.....Life gives us a thousand reasons to be happy and sad but if given a choice, I wld choose to be happy. Sometimes you can't bear to give up on sthg but under certain circumstances you just have and that makes me want to workout more and cook more. Hope time can heal my soul thru cooking....
This is Siara's fave since young. Tonight's dinner, I cooked taiwan spice meat with eggs. This is my first time cooking this but I think I nailed it thru tasting. It tastes different from my mum's but certainly as good if not better.

Ingredients

Hard tofu

• 4 hard boiled eggs
• Fried beancurd puff
• Hard tofu
• Pork belly or spare ribs  (sub w chicken wings if no pork) 



Hard tofu sliced with halved fried beancurd puff

• 5 gloves of garlic 

Spice n tea pouch

• Tea pouch n spice pouch 
• Chinese marinade, salt, pepper, sugar or rock sugar,light n dark soya sauce

Chinese marinade

How to cook

1. Get ready a few hard boiled eggs
2. In a large pot, boil 3/4 water
3. Once bubbling hot, put in tea n spice pouch, 
4. Bring it to boil for 5 minutes  
5. Add two tablespoon of dark soya sauce, one tablespoon of light soya sauce, one teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon of sugar, half ladle of Chinese marinade, a pinch of pepper in the pot
6. Put meat n stew in low heat
7. Simmer till cooked
8. Introduce eggs n the rest into the pot
9. Stew till sauce reduce to half ( stew for at least an hour)
10. Best serve with rice \

*Best indication when cooked is when eggs are browned n meat tender. Do taste constantly at interval to adjust flavor