Iron eggs
Taiwan · East Asia
- Short description
- This snack turns braised eggs dense and springy through repeated cooking and drying.
- Ingredients
- Chicken or quail eggs, soy sauce, tea, star anise, sugar, and spices.
- Cultural note
- Often sold as a packaged or counter snack, it keeps well and has a concentrated savory flavor.
- Common misconception
- The name describes the firm texture and dark color, not an added mineral ingredient.
image credit
Iron Eggs clone compared to a 5 minutes coocked and peeled chicken egg IMG 0263.jpg
- creator:
- Hans Haase
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no content edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.