Mass transit exposure puts spotlight on iconic Hong Kong egg tart and its origins

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In a world of ever-present phone cameras, bad behaviour, particularly by high-profile businesses, rarely goes unpunished. Hong Kong's King Bakery discovered this to their cost last week when a member of its staff was spotted on the city's super-crowded mass transit rail network — the MTR — carrying uncovered trays of egg tarts, exposing them to an array of germs...

A bakery worker sparked online concerns about hygiene when he took tray-loads of Hong Kong’s iconic egg tart delicacy onto the city’s busy mass transit railway system.In a world of ever-present phone cameras, bad behaviour, particularly by high-profile businesses, rarely goes unpunished.

Within days of the social media storm breaking, the bakery, which was founded in 1993 and has 21 branches across the city, had issued an apology, promised to improve hygiene standards and train its staff better. Others contend they are of Portuguese origin, stemming from the similar flaky crust pastel de nata tarts which are widely available in Macau, the former Portuguese enclave an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong.

 

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