
The author Lin Liangqian uses humorous writing to integrate common people's delicacies with current affairs figures. He was praised by netizens as the best literary work in Taiwan in 2026.
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The 22nd Lin Rongsan Literary Award recently announced the winning works. Among them, the essay "Tea Eggs" by Lin Liangqian, a student at National Cheng Kung University, sparked widespread discussion in social media across Taiwan because it integrated common people's delicacies with current affairs figures such as Huang Jen-Hsun's extramarital affair scandal and elections.
Tea eggs from convenience stores. (File photo)
Huida CEO Huang Jen-Hsun's extramarital affair scandal recently broke out. The news shocked the international political and economic circles and the technology community, and also sparked heated discussions in the Taiwanese community. Yesterday (10th), the winning works of the 22nd Lin Rongsan Literary Award were announced one after another. One of the essays was based on Taiwanese civilian delicacy "tea eggs". The author used humorous writing to integrate tea eggs with Huang Renxun, elections and other current events, making a large number of netizens burst into laughter after reading it. It can be called the best literary work in Taiwan in 2026.
It is understood that the short article "Tea Eggs" that has gone viral across the Internet is written by Lin Liangqian from the National Cheng Kung University. The reviewer described the article as allowing him to see the "wok gas" of cooking (Wok Qi in Cantonese, refers to the intense heat of ingredients) After stir-frying warmly and quickly, it exudes a unique caramel aroma and charming flavor.) "It is obviously boiled, but it sounds full of flavor, and the words are as hot as tea eggs. The author's diction is unsparing and not shy, which is impressive."
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In addition, most of the passages that many netizens read with gusto are filled with black humor and mild political satire:
"I went downstairs and waited for the red light under Xu Qiaoxin's huge sign. I lost my appetite thinking about the tea eggs I was about to eat."
"Eating supermarket tea eggs is also a humble attitude towards life. Just like a candidate parachuted into a rural constituency, if you want to eat it, you have to put down your posture."
"Even if tea eggs are full of cracks, they may be bland and tasteless, just like the heart of an egg is unpredictable. You think that a simple person must be like a Bodhisattva, but in the end, when you are mean, you can only say "Oh my god"
"This is a kind of food that cannot be elegant. No matter you are the King of Heaven, a TSMC engineer or Zhang Yuanying, you have to knead the noisy bag, knock three times to crack the egg shell, be careful not to spill the marinade and take out the egg. If you take a bite, you will be burned to the point of sizzling. The whole process is extremely cowardly. Even if Huang Renxun eats tea eggs in front of me, I will think that his monthly salary is 22K."
Netizens praised one after another, "This is the foundation of literature", "Stay friends and watch the Nobel Prize for Literature", "I never thought that tea eggs can be so spicy besides being hot", "I really like this article, it is very hot to read and you can smell it", "It is so hot to read, how many tea eggs did the author eat ”, “I feel the flavor of the wok created by the author while eating tea eggs, I love it”, “The author is like a boss who works with the electric cooker, simple and rustic but with a deep flavor”, “I buy at least 2 tea eggs and put them in double bags, otherwise the sauce will leak out if they are too hot.”
Some people also joked, "Seeing 900 can suppress your appetite~", "Seeing that huge middle finger really makes you lose your appetite", "I never thought that Tea Egg, Zhang Yuanying, and Xu Qiaoxin would be placed together", "Was it a prophet who knew that Huang Renxun would have an accident, so he scolded Xu by the way", "In the two days when the news broke about Ren Xun Huang, is the author a kind of prophet? Okay, the article is exciting enough." "I just want to say that the author's tea eggs are actually a supporting role, and the 900 core inside is the protagonist. Seeing the photos makes me not want tea, eggs, or eat."

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