tea egg

They shared the tea egg recipe, which, like most of theirs, has a focus on homemade products.

Lucy makes their sesame scallion oil and most of the boba tea syrups, cuts up skin-on chicken for teriyaki and makes her own caramel to add a bruléed flavor to the tea egg marinade.

Many cha chaan tengs — the hole-in-the-wall Cantonese diners that serve up milk tea, egg tarts and beef chow fun — still offer discounts for takeout, but the tables inside are beginning to fill up, too.

Modern versions there may be embedded with a whole tea egg or curls of cheese, or arrive sheathed in a scallion-flecked omelet.

Sweet spices suffuse the ground meat; its juices seep into the grains that you mix with tea egg and crisp pickled daikon, and it’s all so easy to shovel down.