Take Note of These Egg Tarts
A Chinatown restaurant makes Cantonese-style egg tarts as compelling as any laminated French pastry.
UPDATE: August Gatherings has relocated from its original location to 102 Bowery.
At August Gatherings in Chinatown, the egg tarts are palm-sized and quivering. They come two to an order, their middles wobbling with the uncertainty of just-baked custard, hot and loose and threatening to spill if you crack their shells too soon.
“Very hot,” warns one of th…