Homemade Baked Egg Custard Recipe
This egg custard recipe is made from scratch, flavored with nutmeg, and baked in the oven in a sweet buttery crust until smooth, silky, and thickened.
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Bought these pastries from Mei Kee Bakery (美記餅家) in Yishun Bus Interchange. The cinnamon-scented Apple Tart used to cost just S$1.50 but had since gone up to S$2 apiece, a whopping increase of S$0.50! Likewise for the caramelized Portuguese Egg Tart from S$1.50 to S$2 each. Do refresh the tarts in the oven if you are eating them the next day as the pastry shell will get soggy.
😋🥢🐇🐰It’s bunny dim sum time! I made a 3D version of my recent red envelope 🧧 painting of my favorite dim sum in bunny form: custard buns 奶黃飽,siu mai 燒賣,egg tarts 蛋撻,soup dumplings小籠飽,and thousand layer cake 千層糕. What’s your favorite dim sum? 😋
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There comes a time in every blogger’s life when they have to confront a harsh truth.
Their dearly held prejudices are blinkered, unreasonable and plain wrong. So this was how I was frogged marched to a Chinatown eatery, where I previously would loudly proclaim that is where you go if you don’t know what real Cantonese food is like. To add insult to injury, eating in some place called Orient…
OH GOOD YOU’RE PORTUGESE i’m potentially flying to lisbon for the first time on tuesday, is it worth going? i’ve never been to portugal and speak like no portugese. i thought spanish and portugese were basically the same but. they are indeed not sgsgshsk i’m scared i’ll be a bit lost if i do go. i’m sure it’s an absolutely lovely place but new places scary 😭
I am!!! Lisbon is very beautiful, although right now is rather full of tourists so it might be a little busy! If you do get the time, i recommend getting a train pass and going to check out also Sintra and Cascais! :D (about half an hour train ride to both)! Food's great, pastries are great, there's a lot of history going all the way back to the romans, very nice historical places (if they seem too glorifying of the portuguese impire and our golden age or whatever, we like to pretend we were kings of the world and not colonists who enslaved people, its a little quirk we got with our history!) but its also quite lovely and has a lot of culture, you arrive pretty close to the popular saints celebrations in lisbon so those are always fun too!!
There's also the annual book fair going on right now so that's also something to do!! (Going there on friday so I can add even more books to my tbr zjzkzkzns)
Dont worry about not speaking portuguese, almost everyone who works in lisbon knows english, and tbh even if you speak spanish we'll understand it most of the time! Its not hard to get around at all and english will be understood just about anywhere, even by people walking around, I've been stopped in the middle of the street to give directions to tourists more times than i can count 😄
Overall tho, we have a reputation of being very nice and welcoming (cause we need tourists' money) so no need to worry about that!
As Singapore economy started to revive from the COVID-19 pandemic, the once shuttered stalls at Yishun Bus Interchange get a new lease of life. Took noticed of this relatively new stall - Mei Kee Bakery (美記餅家) by Bakery Cuisine selling baked buns and pastries as I often walked pass it to board the bus home. The Portuguese Egg Tart (S$1) with the burnt surface of the custard was gorgeous looking. Like the taro tart above, the crust was buttery thin and filled with golden egg custard that filled the mouth with sweet creamy eggy taste and nutty caramel flavours.
I was attracted to their Ginkgo Taro Tart (S$1.50) filled with lavender coloured yam paste. The tart shell is thin and crumbly which fall apart as I sliced into it to reveal a single ginkgo nut. I enjoyed the buttery crust but the mildly sweet paste do seem to be creamy/floury and lack the prominent yam flavour I am expecting. Maybe replacing the ginkgo nut with a few cubes of yam would have make this a better yam tart.
The Apple Tart (S$1.50) with its cinnamon-scented apples that are sweet and carry hint of tartness came topped with sandy crumbles. I would enjoy this over a cup of hot tea for a late afternoon snack.
🧧🐇 behind the scenes of my watercolor painting “Bunny Dim Sum” for @grumpybert ‘s 8th annual Red Envelope Show at @myplasticheart! Come check out the show at MYPLASTICHEART 40 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11222 from Jan 28 - Feb 26, 2023. You can even buy the original piece at the show if you’re interested! As well as check out many other red envelopes designs by many other talented artists.
Feauturing some of my favorite dim sum 😋: siu mai 燒賣, custard bun 奶黃飽, egg tarts 蛋撻, soup dumplings 小籠飽, and thousand layered sweet cake 千層糕! What are your favorite dim sum? 😋🥟