Egg Tarts

These are Portuguese egg tarts.  Believe it or not, we tried some in Bangkok, in a multi-story Japanese dept store (Isetan).  One floor had a bakery that served these tarts.  As it turns out, the custard tarts originated in Portugal, and they made it to Thailand via Portuguese merchants, missionaries and gov't officials.  Macau (today, part of China) was one of their Asian colonies, and so also likely the Chinese brought these recipes south to Thailand, which has a very sizable (and wealthy) ethnic Chinese population.  When I was last in Bangkok, I found at least one stand-alone bakery specializing in these treats. Globalization has pretty much always been around.  - 2019 e-mail