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Egg tart

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image:Chinese_egg_tart.jpg|thumb|An egg tart
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image:Tai_Cheong_Bakery_HK.jpg|thumb|250px|The queue leading to the newly-reopened Tai Cheong's Bakery (far right).
Egg tart is a type of pastry found in Chinese cuisine. It consists of a flaky outer crust, with a middle filled with egg (food)|egg custard, which is then baked. Egg tarts are typically marketed at Chinese bakery|bakeries and cha chaan tengs, and some dim sum restaurants.

Chris Patten, the last British Empire|British Governor of Hong Kong|Governor of Hong Kong before the transition to China in 1997, was known in Hong Kong popular culture to be fond of this pastry. He tasted the tart at Tai Cheong's Bakery (TC:????????????; see external links below) in Central, Hong Kong|Central before leaving Hong Kong, and thus the eggs tarts sold at the bakery became known as "Fei-Paang egg tarts" (????????????; lit. Fat Patten's Egg Tart, "Fat Patten" being the governer's nickname in Cantonese). The story still remains popular among Hongkongers.
Hong Kong-style

Hong Kong-style egg tarts have two main varieties, divided according to the type of the outermost layer or crust:
  • Butter-flavoured (?????????, pinyin: Niuyoupi, literally, "Cow oil skin"): has a more continous and smooth outermost layer. It possesses a cookie-like flavour with a rich butter aroma.

  • Crispy (??????, pinyin: Supi, literally "Crispy skin"): has layers of thin pastry giving it a extremely crisp texture. Lard is typically used in making the base.
Portuguese-style

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Portuguese-style egg tarts actually originated from Coloane, Macao, and had been available at the Hong Kong branches of the KFC restaurant chain.
See also

  • Pastry

  • Dim sum
Source

This article is translated from Chinese Wikipedia :zh:??????. You can help translate it.
External links

  • http://hk.news.yahoo.com/050525/12/1cvf2.html A Ming Pao report on the last business day (25/5/2005) of Tai Cheong's Bakery. The bakery was able to rent another stall, situated just opposite to the original stall, and was reopened in October 2005.

  • http://www.avbuzz.com/krisy/album19 AVBuzz.com, a Hong Kong-based online photographic society, has its photographs capturing the crowds around Tai Cheong's Bakery.



Category:Pastry
Category:Chinese cuisine
Category:Hong Kong cuisine
zh:蛋撻
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Last Modified:   2005-11-07


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