Portuguese-style egg tarts are puff pastry and layered.
Generally, egg tarts use a sweet pastry crust, which is similar to biscuits and are not layered. They are relatively simple to make and cheaper.
Traditional Cantonese-style egg tarts are also called crispy egg tarts, that is, Tarts are made with puff pastry. In recent years, in order to cater to consumers, it has gradually changed to meringue. Traditional pastry egg tarts are generally made of mixed pastry dough and are easy to make. It tastes a bit hard and looks a bit old-fashioned.
Portuguese egg tart, also known as Portuguese cream tart and caramel macchiato egg tart, is a small butter pastry pie, a type of egg tart, with a burnt surface (due to excessive heating of sugar) later caramel) is characterized by it. The earliest Portuguese egg tarts came from the Englishman Andrew Stow. In 1989, he brought the Portuguese egg tarts to Macau. After switching to British custard filling and reducing the amount of sugar, many people came to him and became famous. Macau’s famous snacks.