Madeline’s Original Portugese Egg Tart & Puff

Love their warm custardy Portuguese egg tarts ($ 1.20 SGD per piece) and pandan flavored egg tarts. Friendly & prompt service. Great place for your second breakfast (1^st breakfast = kaya toast set, duh).

Let me start off by saying that I am an egg whore. I love eggs in any way, shape, or form. Put an egg on it, in it, with it, I don’t care — I’ll probably eat it. Judge me all you want, I’m not ashamed. Just a heads up that this review may be a bit biased. Also worth mentioning — Chinese egg tarts (also known as dan tats) were my snack food equivalent of crack and largely contributed to my ‘food is love’, lonely fat kid days.
For a mere $ 1.50, you will be handed the world’s most perfect snack. The custard portion is very lightly sweetened, delicate, and seriously smooth. It’s served warm, breaks cleanly (see pic), and for lack of a better word, tastes nice and egg-​y. A dan tat is slightly richer and denser and its’ custard filling will be distinctly golden in color and ‘perfectly’ unblemished. In contrast, the Portuguese style egg tart is less sweet, lighter in texture, and is characterized by a beautifully caramelized surface. Charred, browned eggs, you say? Oh, tis a good thing…
The buttery, flaky crust has just the right hint of salt and leans more towards an airy puff pastry then say, a shortbread type crust. I can’t wrap my head around it, but the custard has that consistency of a steamed custard but the crust itself has that ‘straight outta the oven’, golden brown taste every single time!
Anyways, go get yourself an egg tart… you won’t be disappointed. Food is love.

I love portugese egg tarts and Madeline’s is a place I randomly stumbled across because it seemed at the time a sensible dessert option after dinner at the neighbour’s restaurant. I was a little bit skeptical about buying from this place because the shopkeeper wasn’t able to speak english. But the place had this lovely bakery smell that gets you really interested in food in general. With the craving excited, i went ahead and started with ordering 1 tart but finished up buying 3. Madeline got the most important rule of egg tarts right… serve the tarts warm. Some egg tart places are frustrating because they serve the egg tarts cold. These tarts had an exquisitely nice sweet soft texture and the egg inside seemed to have this flavorful layer of butter. The bread was nice and soft and just crumbled effortlessly in the mouth.
You can get 6 of these for $ 7.50. If you like egg tarts, Madeline’s is definitely worth a visit.