Where is egg tart originated?!
Answers: where and when is egg tart originated
I really like egg tarts. I will have my own homemade egg tart both (hong kong and Portuguese-style egg tarts )
History:The earliest record of egg tart in the East is at a royal banquet for the Kangxi Emperor as part of the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.[citation needed]
Custard tarts were introduced in Hong Kong in the 1940s by cha chaan tengs and western cafes and bakeries to compete with dim sum restaurants particularly for yum cha. It later evolved to become egg tarts today.[1] At the time, egg tarts were twice the size of today's tarts. During the 1950s and 1960s when the economy started taking off, Luk Jyu (陸羽) took the lead with the mini-egg tart.[1]
One theory suggests Chinese egg tarts are a Chinese adaption of English tarts with custard filling. Guangdong had long been the region in China with most frequent contact with the West, in particular Britain. As a former British colony, British food naturally assimilated to local Hong Kong tastes.
in hongkong or macau
dont know when
egg tarts are a portuguese specialty, they are called pasteis da nata in portuguese. the chinese got egg tarts from them when the portuguese founded their colony, macau, in china.
hk style egg tarts are not as burnt/roasted as portuguese style.
here in the usa, you can buy pasteis da nata if there is a large portuguese community near you like newark's ironbound.
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I'm from Hong Kong.. and I think egg tart is one of the very well-known Hong Kong food. I like it very much especially when it is still warm... yummy.