The fire is believed to cook the tea or coffee much better than an electric stove. Tea-o is tea without sugar or milk. Firstly, the half-boiled egg is served on a wide open saucer. Then soy sauce as well as pepper flavours the egg. The egg has to be cooked at the right temperature so that it is soft and woogly and not hard.
Some people slurp the egg from the saucer directly.
There is also the kaya bread. Kaya a type of Singaporean egg jam is spread on toasted bread with butter. Kaya is made from coconut milk, eggs, pandan leaves etc. In the past eggs from Vietnam were used. However when the supplies run out, chicken eggs were used instead.