Link: https://vickypham.com/blog/hong-kong-egg-tarts/

Bakery-style Hong Kong egg tarts in about 30 minutes with store-bought tart shells. Flaky crust, smooth custard, lightly sweet, these are the perfect desserts to enjoy with coffee or tea.

OMG It's the 蛋撻, I've always lived near ethnic Chinese communities so I had a lot of these from the bakeries. It's good! Well sometimes that one store kinda fucked it up a bit a few times and didn't taste as great, but most of the times it tastes good.

I had some within the past few months, there's like one of these bakeries very close by.

I think the best ones were in NYC. I remember in Brooklyn, I had a lot of different 包 and 蛋撻 and 粉麵 and alot of 燒臘

I remember stuff in Manhattan Chinatown was better? Or maybe I just go there rarely and viewed the Manhattan Chinatown as more "prestiged" than the Brooklyn 86th street "Mini-Chinatown"¹ where I live, and had a biased taste for stuff.

¹We call anywhere where there's a lot of ethnic Chinese people a "Chinatown" (唐人街, literally translates to "Tang People Street" Tang refer to one of the best dynasties in China's history).

I remember my parent's refer to 3 Chinatowns:

The Main, Manhattan Chinatown, the most recognizable one.

The 2nd, 8th Avenue "Mini-Chinatown"

The 3rd, 86th Street "Mini-Chinatown" near where we lived

I always had the perception that the biggest one was the best one, idk if its true or not

Thanks I love this. Will probably take me 3 hours instead of 30 minutes.