OMG It’s the 蛋撻, I’ve always lived near ethnic Chinese communities so I had a lot of these from the bakeries. It’s good! Well sometimes that one store kinda fucked it up a bit a few times and didn’t taste as great, but most of the times it tastes good.

I had some within the past few months, there’s like one of these bakeries very close by.

I think the best ones were in NYC. I remember in Brooklyn, I had a lot of different 包 and 蛋撻 and 粉麵 and alot of 燒臘

I remember stuff in Manhattan Chinatown was better? Or maybe I just go there rarely and viewed the Manhattan Chinatown as more “prestiged” than the Brooklyn 86th street "Mini-Chinatown"¹ where I live, and had a biased taste for stuff.

¹We call anywhere where there’s a lot of ethnic Chinese people a “Chinatown” (唐人街, literally translates to “Tang People Street” Tang refer to one of the best dynasties in China’s history).

I remember my parent’s refer to 3 Chinatowns:

The Main, Manhattan Chinatown, the most recognizable one.

The 2nd, 8th Avenue “Mini-Chinatown”

The 3rd, 86th Street “Mini-Chinatown” near where we lived

I always had the perception that the biggest one was the best one, idk if its true or not

Thanks I love this. Will probably take me 3 hours instead of 30 minutes.