Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
I've made those. They are actually super easy with frozen puff pastry and a quart of heavy cream.
The difficult part is not eating the full 3 dozen or so the recipe yields.
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Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
This looks delicious. I found a few recipes online (thank goodness for frozen puff pastry!) and I will attempt to make them this weekend.
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Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
oooh. for some strange reason, my regular dim sum place in provy only bakes 2 dozen of these every weekend. patrons sacrifice their weekend sleep-ins to place their orders (no phone reservations), so imagine how annoyed i was when a friend's snotty girlfriend "wasted" one by taking a bite, making a face, and pronouncing it "too eggy." we've not invited her since. there's nothing worse than seeing someone's sour face as you try to enjoy a yummy weekend brunch!
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
These are wickedly good! I had something similar at the Asian bakery the other day and had to limit myself to just 3!
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
The bakery at 99 Ranch in the SF bay area are run by Sogo bakery. They do the Portuguese tarts (but not the HK style). The one at the Milpitas 99 Ranch didn't look very good today. The crust looked undercook.
When I was in Macau last month, it seem every bakery had these tarts, but few had the HK style tarts. In HK, the HK style tarts dominate, a few might have the Portuguese tarts. Apparently KFC in HK makes a good Portugese egg tart, but not being a fan of them (I prefer HK style), I didn't seek them out.
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
There was a pu-sa dan tat (The nickname for Portugese egg tart in mandarin)/po-taat craze a little while back in Asia.
At the time, a lot of Chinatown bakeries were churning out their own richer, flakier, carmelized versions of the regular egg tart.
They might still make them, but I haven't checked.
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
In Cantonese they are "po taat" (Portuguese tart). The difference from regular "daan taat" (egg tart) is that in addition to being caramelized on top, they have some coconut flavor to them. It's the HK/Macau version of the Portuguese pastel de nata. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_de_nata
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
I think all the Ranch 99's in CA sell them. I always get a bunch when I'm near one.
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
Portguese Egg tarts came to Hong Kong via Macau (former Portguese colony). In Cantonese I think they are prounounced Po Dai Kat, loosely translated to Portguese Egg Tarts.
Hong Kong style egg/custard tarts (the kinds usually found at dim sum) are not carmelized on top. They are different from English custard tarts.
Photo of the Day: Portuguese Egg Tarts
Yeah, I've had them at dim sum, too. I had no idea they weren't Chinese. Well, actually, I thought they must have come by way of English colonialism.
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