Pingnan Egg Tea屏南蛋茶

Pingnan Egg Tea屏南蛋茶 is a traditional hospitality custom from China, Fujian Province Pingnan district, when the guests visit Pingnan people, they will prepare egg tea. This egg tea is good for healthy. You have to use boiled tea and mixed with egg, then add some sugar or rock sugar to flavour it.

You might be wondering I am introducing Sibu and not China. Majority Sibu Chinese is Foochow people and some of them still maintain the traditional culture. However, this type of egg tea culture is not that common in Sibu. I happened to attend the Pingnan Egg Tea ceremony and got to see how it was made.

福建屏南县的一种待客风俗，有客人来时会冲泡给客人喝。方法是用煮开的茶叶水，然后冲浇在搅拌均匀的蛋中，加冰糖（或白糖）而成。福建屏南县的甘棠乡巴地畲族自然村的村民以艾叶卧底，上搁一个完整的生蛋，用滚烫的山泉水浇熟，沏出“艾蛋茶”。每逢村中男人办大事、干重活，或身有小恙时必饮此茶——艾叶可祛痧解毒避邪气，蛋可进补，故奉蛋茶又成为迎宾待客的上等礼节。在屏南，谁家来客人，热情的主人就会泡碗蛋茶敬给客人;谁家办大事、干重活都会泡蛋茶接待，表示一种隆重，表示一种礼数。
**Chinese source taken from Baike Baidu and www.yyx.com.cn/畅游白水洋

The way that Pingnan society in Sibu did was, they use chopstick to help. Basically this is how they made the egg tea.

Ingredients:-

• 80g Tea Leave艾叶
• 5 cups Water水 
• 5 Egg蛋
• Sugar or rock sugar冰糖 (if you wish to be healthy, you may add honey蜂蜜) - Optional

**I am not sure the exact amount of ingredients needed. For the sugar amount, you can adjust yourself depends on the sweetness level you like. If you totally cannot take it sugar, you can just skip it.

Steps:-

1. Boiled the tea leaves and sugar in the water. According to them you can use most of the tea, they were using normal Chinese tea leaves. The tea must be really hot to make the egg tea.
2. Place one egg in the bowl. Take one chopstick and place straight onto the egg yolk like the picture below.
3. Pour the hot tea slowly down along the chopstick until the tea fill 75% of the bowl. You will then notice the egg started to get cooked.
4. Egg tea is done. You may serve it to your guest.

**Tips: The tea MUST BE HOT when you make the Egg Tea if not the egg will not have the nice shape and the raw egg smell will be very strong.

There are some other recipe of cooking the tea egg online but I can only found in Chinese Version.

【桑寄生蛋茶】
　　主 料： 桑寄生2两（约80克），鹌鹑蛋8只，红枣8-12粒，冰糖9/2两（约180克）。
　　做 法：
　　1、鹌鹑蛋隔水蒸15分钟，然后放入冷水中浸片刻，去壳备用。
　　2、桑寄生置筲箕内，用水洗净，沥干。
　　3、红枣洗净，去核。
　　4、清水5杯注入锅内烧煮，下桑寄生，用中火煮约20分钟。
　　5、捞出桑寄生，下红枣、鹌鹑蛋和冰糖，同煮10分钟便成。
　　备 注： 鹌鹑蛋壳较鸡蛋壳薄，而且表面花斑斑，即使有裂纹也不易觉察。假若将之放入水中浸煮，蛋白便会从裂缝中渗出，改用隔水蒸的方法，则可避免鹌鹑蛋直接受热，能保证熟蛋完好。

【蜂蜜蛋茶】
　　蜂蜜35克，鸡蛋1个。
　　[制作]蜂蜜加水适量烧丌；将鸡蛋磕入碗内，用筷子打散，再将烧沸的蜜水冲蛋服。
　　[用法]每日1—2次，温服

　　[功效] 宣肺润喉，除烦止咳 适用于慢性支气管炎、声音嘶哑等。