You can smell it before you see it. The sweet smell of sugar, egg and custard, baking til it’s cooked just right. Flaky pastry on the outside, soft custard on the inside, and crispy, burnt, sugar on ...
MACAU (Reuters) - Overseas visitors are an increasingly common sight in China’s gambling territory of Macau which is trying to diversify an economic model that has depended on mainland high rollers ...
Join Josh and Ollie on a vibrant food adventure through Macau as they search for the city's most delicious egg tarts. From the legendary Lord Stow's Bakery to unique local creations like the 243-layer ...
One of Macau’s most talked about dishes is the egg tart. But while the local spin on creme brulee deserves plenty of gastronomic attention, this legacy of the Portuguese is just ...
Pastel de nata (Portuguese egg tarts) served on a plate. - Kritchai7752/Shutterstock The difference between Portuguese and Chinese egg tarts is similar to the ...
A selection of dan tat from Supita on Sawtelle Boulevard, including (from left) Portuguese-style egg tarts, Hong Kong-style egg tarts and an egg white tart (top right). (Jenn Harris / Los Angeles ...
Photo above courtesy of Thinkstock. All other photos by Rosalind Cummings-Yeates. If you've heard anything about Macau, the small peninsula on the Southern coast of China, you've surely heard about ...
The non-Asian mother-in-law of a dear friend of mine once told me that "the Chinese don't have desserts, not real ones." The implication that I (a Chinese American) was other, different, and weird, ...