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    Margaret's Cafe e Nata is famous for its Macanese egg tarts made by Margaret Wong. While egg tarts have origins in medieval England and Portugal, the modern Hong Kong version originated in 1920s Guangzhou when chefs created them to attract customers to department stores. The combination of flaky pastry and creamy egg custard became popular in 1940s Hong Kong tea restaurants and remains so today. The Macanese version is said to be more caramelized and sweet than the Cantonese one, perfected over time by a British-Portuguese pharmacist and his Chinese wife in Macau.

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    Margaret's Cafe e Nata is famous for its Macanese egg tarts made by Margaret Wong. While egg tarts have origins in medieval England and Portugal, the modern Hong Kong version originated in 1920s Guangzhou when chefs created them to attract customers to department stores. The combination of flaky pastry and creamy egg custard became popular in 1940s Hong Kong tea restaurants and remains so today. The Macanese version is said to be more caramelized and sweet than the Cantonese one, perfected over time by a British-Portuguese pharmacist and his Chinese wife in Macau.

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    Margaret's Cafe e Nata is famous for its Macanese egg tarts made by Margaret Wong. While egg tarts have origins in medieval England and Portugal, the modern Hong Kong version originated in 1920s Guangzhou when chefs created them to attract customers to department stores. The combination of flaky pastry and creamy egg custard became popular in 1940s Hong Kong tea restaurants and remains so today. The Macanese version is said to be more caramelized and sweet than the Cantonese one, perfected over time by a British-Portuguese pharmacist and his Chinese wife in Macau.

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    Egg tart, China

    Margaret's Cafe e Nata is famous for its sweet, delicious Macanese egg tarts. We meet up with
    the legendary woman behind the Macao brand, Margaret Wong.
    Egg tarts were eaten in medieval England and by 13th-century monks in Portugal. But the
    version we know from modern-day Hong Kong is said to have originated in Guangzhou in the
    1920s, when department store chefs created a new treat to lure customers.
    The pairing of flaky puff pastry and smooth, yellow egg custard took off in Hong Kong's "tea
    restaurants" in the 1940s and remains a popular dessert snack today. As writer Anna Ling Kaye
    recounts in "All About Eggs," there is a version from Macau that's more caramelized and smoky-
    sweet than the Cantonese version -- an egg tart with Portuguese ancestry perfected by a British
    pharmacist-turned-baker and his Chinese wife.

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