{"id":3042,"date":"2010-08-26T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/portuguese-egg-tart-the-predecessor-of-the-cantonese-dan-ta\/"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:36:53","slug":"portuguese-egg-tart-the-predecessor-of-the-cantonese-dan-ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/portuguese-egg-tart-the-predecessor-of-the-cantonese-dan-ta\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese egg tart, the predecessor of the Cantonese \u00e8\u203a\u2039\u00e6\u2019\u00bb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/iL8W9tJkrEAFUBCq3YwpIt2ZkJ696lLmQjYpjdgdbmeiZZ5lnQSraKJ03EgP\/IMG_20100811_153708.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/hVncoFvts1MaplaE8DNPkpn1o6AFLfXr2Ps3X2OsybanMYtLld3w2bv1FDh3\/IMG_20100811_153708.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"  \/><\/a>I was in Penang, Malaysia when I saw the Portugese egg tart, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pastel_de_nata\">pastel de nata<\/a>, at a local dessert chain called Maxim&#8217;s. These are theorized to be an inspiration for the Cantonese egg tart, called dan ta (\u00e8\u203a\u2039\u00e6\u2019\u00bb), as they got to Hong Kong via Macau, a Portugese colony when the Portugese egg tarts are still served. \u00c2\u00a0So I was excited to try them finally \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as you don&#8217;t come across a lot of Portugese egg tarts in New York City.<\/p>\n<div>My verdict: It&#8217;s much more eggy and has a thicker richer crust than the dan ta. It&#8217;s definitely a &#8220;heavier experience.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Penang, Malaysia when I saw the Portugese egg tart, also known as pastel de nata, at a local dessert chain called Maxim&#8217;s. These are theorized to be an inspiration for the Cantonese egg tart, called dan ta (\u00e8\u203a\u2039\u00e6\u2019\u00bb), as they got to Hong Kong via Macau, a Portugese colony when the Portugese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[182,183,184],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","tag-dan-ta","tag-egg-tart","tag-portugese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}