港式蛋撻

點心小食港式甜品素蛋

Pronunciation

English Name

Hong Kong-style egg tart

Cantonese (Traditional)

港式蛋撻

Simplified Chinese

港式蛋挞

Mandarin (Pinyin)

Gǎng sh dàn tà

Yale Romanization

góng sīk daahn tāat

Character Breakdown

港式 is Hong-Kong style (港 is the second character of Hong Kong 香港, and 式 is style), so 港式 is Kong-style). 蛋 is egg, and 撻 is a loanword that sounds like for tart, so 港式蛋撻 is Hong Kong-style egg tart.

About This Dish

Small circular pastry shells filled with a yellow eggy custard. The crust is flaky and the custard surface is smooth and shiny.

History

Hong Kong style egg tarts resemble British custard tarts, but there seems to be some debate whether they derived directly from British tarts or from the Portuguese style egg tarts by way of Macau (see the next dish).