Portuguese egg tarts or Chinese egg tarts
Portuguese pastéis de nata...what is a Macau trip without Portuguese-style egg tarts...and how can I pass on that ? :P
Do you like Portuguese-style egg tarts
or the Chinese egg tarts ?
To me, the difference between the Portuguese Egg Tart and the Chinese Egg Tart is clearly IN THE PASTRY CRUST CASING and the CUSTARD SURFACE. Portuguese egg tart always comes, dressed in flaky pastry while Chinese egg tart sometimes crumbly, sometimes flaky. Portuguese egg tart also has that signature "caramelized-sugar" crème brûlée-look, at the surface ~ a finishing topping of caramelized sugar, never found in normal Chinese egg tarts.
So I did not forget. And I had many, in fact. I prefer Portuguese-style egg tarts (葡式蛋撻, more commonly simply as 葡撻) to the Chinese egg tarts. However, if it is a tasty, freshly-baked, warm from the oven Chinese egg tart, I could not resist anyway. In short, just don't make me choose.
Irresistible authentic Portuguese-style egg tarts in Macau!
Portuguese-style egg tart is a modification of the original Portuguese pastéis de nata
Hmmmm....egg-related recipes - there is a sweet one and a savory one, which do you like?
Tag: macau eating, street food, travel macau
42 comments:
I prefer portuguese egg tarts too. One is always not enough. :P
I like them equally, though the Chinese tarts (Darn Tart) I prefer early in the day and hot out of the oven, usually for breakfast or yum cha, which I used to have for at the crack of dawn occasionally when living in Hong Kong. It's possibly because they have a lard based pastry which is unsweetened and extra flaky that I love with have with Chinese tea and greasy dim sum.
The Pasteis de Nata - which I also wrote a post on - are sweet butter puff pastry made in a similar style with a much hotter oven and way more sugar - are for me a heaven at 4pm or evening fix with an espresso. In Macau it's hard to go past them and not eat! MMMmmmm!!
yes i like it!
so many on the photos! lao nuah-ing leh...
Mmmm definitely the Portuguese ones for me! That last photo of the rows and rows of Portuguese eggs tarts is making me drool... Not had any for ages...
Those all look delicious.
I have never heard of either before. I'm not a fan of eggs though, so I don't know if I would like them or not.
Me! Me! I love Portuguese egg tarts, look at that picture, I couldn't resist also.
Every Sunday I feel hungriest when I stop here!
I'd like to taste them both! Yummy entry =)
Have a fine week!
I tried my first Portugese egg tart in Singapore and didn't like it at all. I still prefer the chinese egg tarts.
they look and sound yummy!
yummmmmyyyyy! I want to taste it too... mine's up hope you can drop by.
Perfect -- my husband just bought me a gift of a set of Chinese egg tart cups, and I wasn't sure where to find a recipe. And now here you are, with the perfect thing.
Looks soo Tasty! Gotta try one of P's egg tarts real soon.
Happy WS!
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I must remind myself to only visit your blog when I'm NOT hungry. It's my breakfast hour now and staring at your tarts are making my plain cereal look and taste really bad :P
But I love all your food posts!! :)
Hmmmm This looks so yummy and it's making me hungry... Thanks for sharing...
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Ummmm.... that tarts surely made my tummy rumble!
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Ooo..la la....i love portuguese egg tart which is more fragrant (hiong). I will be posting about it soon..after my hk posting.
oh dear. I dont think I can decide either. I want both!
i like all of them!
ohhhh may!! those egg tart make me feel hungry now
Chinese Egg Tarts ... for sure.
I've tried the Portuguese ones in Macau. OK, they are delicious. But I will take the Chinese ones any time if I can only choose one :)
I love the custard but not the flaky crust ... hee... very fussy right? How I wish to have an egg tart now (at 1 am). It's 'dangerous' to visit your blog around supper time :D
i loooooove egg tarts! :) i haven't tried the portuguese kind though. :( i'm a huge fan of egg-custard types of food. hee hee!
have a great week!
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Definitely portuguese egg tart for me!
I have never ate chinese egg tarts (now i'm curious) but I ate (and made) soooooo many portuguese ones! Here's a link to a picture for the portuguese egg tart on the making!
Ops... forgot the link! Here it is: http://clumbsycookie.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-pastry-shop-kitchen.html
After having them at Dim Sum places for years I had no idea these were Portuguese until I went to Lisbon and had them at the original Casa Pastéis de Belém.
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Portuguese of course!!!!
(god i'm drooling now)
all were deliciously looking
yummy, yummy~licious!! it's definitely portugese tarts. oh, i've tried this famous macau portugese tarts. love it!! when you going macau again? maybe can ask you to take away a dozen for me! Haha.. :)
Jean Chia
i prefer the portuguese ones muchhhh much much more than the chinese version, specifically becos of the pastry base and the burnt caramelised top hehehe YUMMMMMM
ironically, i eat the ones here, not the ones in macau. in macau i've always been too full to squeeze some of these bad boys in hehe, will try next time ^_^
The portuguese ones often seem lighter - I like the focus on the filling rather than the crust.
All of a sudden, I'm hungry! :)
Newark, NJ is like Little Portugal and a good friend of mine is Portuguese so I get my fair share of Portuguese egg tarts.
That said, I prefer the Chinese egg tarts to the Portuguese ones.
sweet or savory, I'll take them both! I especially love the picture of the row of tarts on the windows!
I prefer portuguese egg tarts! I had the best ones in macau!
yummm... pasteo de natas. I still remember the ones I bought in Lisbon; truly delicious!
Kiriel
Lucky for those who have gone to Lisbon and tried the original.
And seems that some like Chinese Darn Tarts and some prefer Portuguese....
you are all like me - how good is it if you don't have to choose "P
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stickyfingers, thanks for your details. I've learnt new again!
This blog makes me hungry...
I'm from Portugal and I love "Pastéis de Nata".
Here many people eat that tart with a little of powder cinnamon on top.
Only now I realize that this recipe is so internacional :)
I love this !!!
When I was in Lisbon I used to eat a lot of these cakes for breakfast... I was ADDECTED to Pastéis de Nata...
These egg tarts are based on a centuries-old Portuguese Recipe as you can read on some of the postas here. The Portuguese version is healthier then the egg tart and it's called a NATA or pasterl de Nata. There's a place in Macau selling these and they are really great. Everytime i'm in Macau I pop by the cafe and have a bunch with my family. For me the portuguese NATA tastes much better and the taste is very quite different from the portuguese egg tart - a Macau invention. This is the only place you can get them in them as far as I know.
The coffeeshop is called CUPPACOFFEE and is in Taipa Island... let me get the card: R. Fernao Mendes Pinto, 104 near a chinese cafe everyone knows called Hei Lin (you can mention that name to the taxi driver).
Barry,
UK
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