Tea Egg

6 eggs
80 ml light soysauce
6 star-anise
2 earl greay teabags
enough water to cover the eggs

Boil eggs for 10 minutes.
Rol them on your desk so the shell will crack.
Heat the tea/soy/staranise mixture, add the cracked eggs and simmer for at least 1 hour.

I was really looking forward to them.
They looked so promising on this blog :
Tea Eggs (茶葉蛋)
See the picture below.

But it was a bit of a disappointment. They were hardly marbled at all. The marinade didn't get through the "second skin". So they only had a very, very subtly taste.

What should I do different next time? Throw them to a wall first? :)
Or just stick a knife through them, that would help. :)