If you have ever tried Pasteis de Nata (the original Portuguese tart), forget everything your taste buds remember about it as the Asian version is very different. To me nothing can surely match the ones anyone should taste at least once in his life at the original pastelaria in Belém but the local version can also be very good. Funnily they were not imported to Macau directly by the Portuguese but by the British who modified the original portuguese recipe which had a filling more similar to a French Creme Brulee and naturally adapted it to a solid English custard technique. They were then introduced in Hong Kong in the 1940s and it took no time to spread to the whole Chinese continent including what is now Singapore of course. The ones we had today at Crystal Jade after our Sunday Yum Cha were so fresh that we actually had to wait for them to cook!
