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Title
Egg Puff
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Subject
Hong Kong food
historical food
street food
egg poduct
baking
Description
Egg Puff is a sephrical egg-based puff popular in Hong Kong and Macau. Sweetened egg batter grilled between two plates of semi-spherical cells to make the puffs. Besides traditional plain egg puffs, more modern flavours such as green tea and chocolate have been invented and can be commonly seen nowadays.
Format
served in packs
Type
Food
Identifier
HKFood021
Food Item Type Metadata
Time of origin
1950s
Place of origin
Hong Kong
Story of origin
The exact origin of the egg puff is unknown, but several versions of stories exists. One story says the enterprising post-war generation created the egg-shaped mold to make up for an eggless batter, as eggs used to be a luxury. Another tale says that a sundry shop owner did not want to waste broken eggs so that he tried to add flour, butter etc. and bake it in a mold.
Taste
sweet
General price
15
Ingredients
egg
flour
butter
evapotated milk
Places available
Street vendors, Food stalls
Cuisine
Hongkongese
Cooking method
baking
Cantonese pronunciation
gai1 daan6 zai2
