Ingredients:

8-12 eggs
1/2 cup light soy sauce
2 t salt
4 piece star anise
black tea (usually just get a black tea bag)

Method:

Cover eggs with enough water to cover. Bring water to boil and simmer for 3 minutes.
Remove eggs and roll in towel to crack shells.
Return eggs to water, add soy sauce, salt and star anise.
Simmer for 3+ hours.

(This is how I cook it, but I’ve seen recipes that add 1 stick of cinnamon stick and some sugar.)

Classic comfort food from Taiwan.

Ingredients:

3 cups of long grain sweet rice (sticky rice)
2 chinese (non-sweet) sausage
5 pc. dried mushrooms
1/2 cup dried shrimp
1/2 cup fried shallots
3 T light soy sauce
1 T brown sugar
2 T sesame/cooking oil

Preparation:

Soak mushroom in 1 cup hot water until soft.
Soak shrimp in 1/2 cup water.
Cook rice in rice cooker with 1.5 cup of water.
Chop mushroom into small strips.
Chop sausage into small pieces.
Mix soy sauce and brown sugar.

Method:

Stir fry shallot in oil briefly.
Add sausage.
Add mushroom without water to shallot (keep water for later).
Add dry shrimp without water.
Add water from mushroom and shrimp and bring to boil.
Add soy sauce and brown sugar.
Add sweet rice and mix together.