Jasmine Chia

It's just ME - Sunday, April 05, 2009

yes! Yes! YES!

The book I’ve been waiting for is finally out. I’ve been waiting for it to be published for more than a year already. Actually the title is ...

Music - Thursday, April 02, 2009

Top overplayed songs on my iTune

My list of overplayed songs on my play list with the last one being the latest overplayed song for this week. I am just a little bit caught ...

Food - Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Food adventure – Chomp Chomp, Serangoon

I just came back from a fulfilling dinner with my good friends cum colleagues. This week we went all the way to Serangoon for a good hawker ...

I’m a dessert loving person. When in buffet, I’m always the first person from my table to breeze through main course and dive to the dessert spread. In Macau, you can easily see many shops selling Portuguese tart. These egg tart are more caramelized then the standard egg tart you get from Hong Kong. During my stay there I’ve tried the tarts from a couple of shops such as Koi Kei but the one that I truly like is the one from Margaret’s café.

Margaret’s Café e Nata (瑪嘉烈餅店)

This quaint café is situated at a back alley behind some very busy roads. The façade of this place is very distinct and has a very casual setting. They offer mainly western spread such as sandwiches, quiche etc. but their best seller is without a doubt the Portuguese egg tart. As the egg tart here sells very well so one may need to wait a while for their kitchen to replenish the stock. On my first visit there, I was slightly disappointed, as their egg tart has all sold out.

Not giving it up so easily, on my 2nd visit to the stall Ron and myself bought 6 egg tarts to eat, each of us having 3 tarts. This is after our very fulfilling lunch eating the oyster noodle that I mentioned in my earlier post. I can be quite a glutton when it comes to food that I like eating. It’s as if my stomach have this amazing way of expanding itself, or rather I force it down my throat through to my stomach, just like my trip to Penang last year Dec, where I walloped a bowl of prawn noodle and 2 plates of char kway teow, all these within the span of an hour. Of course I try not to do it often and only do it when I know that those nice food are hard to come by.

OoOooo Look at the flaky yet buttery skin. Don’t you want to just sink your teeth right on to it now?

The next day after my 2nd visit to the stall that is also my last morning in Macau, Ron and I headed there again for our second round of egg tart (also eating 3 egg tart each). We really enjoyed the egg tart very much. I heard there is another famous egg tart shop by the name Lord Stow’s but unfortunately I didn’t have time to try that and it’s on another island in Macau. Apparently this 2 shop owners used to be husband and wife. After the divorce, that did not end up amicably, the wife opened her own shop.

Getting there:
From Grand Lisboa main entrance, stand at the position where the casino is behind you and you’re facing the road, turn right and keep walking along the road until you come to a road with a traffic light. Look out for an alley directly opposite where you are standing; you should be able to see a sign pointing in the direction of the café. That’s the café that you should head to for that oh-so-delicious egg tart.