Brooklyn's $1.75 Portuguese Egg Tart · 葡式蛋撻

新發餅家 Xin Fa Bakery · 5617 8th Ave, Sunset Park

Two-fifty steps from the N train. A flaky shell, a custard set just enough to wobble, a top scorched honey-dark. Pulled from the oven every hour, sold by the half-dozen, paid for in singles. Since 1989.

Since 1989 Sunset Park Open 7:30–17:30

Call (718) 871-2889 · 歡迎電話預訂

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招牌 The Signature

One tart.
A dollar seventy-five. — and nothing about it has changed in thirty-six years.

The crust is pure lard-and-flour, layered until it shatters under a thumbprint. The custard is yolks, sugar, evaporated milk. The top is held under a furnace flame for forty seconds until the sugar blisters into a constellation of dark spots.

You eat it warm, standing on the sidewalk, before the wax paper has time to cool through. Half a dozen for $10.50. Cash, please.

「招牌葡撻，現烤現賣，一個 $1.75。」

$1.75

Per tart · 每個
Half-dozen $10.50

葡撻 · $1.75

終日焼成 Baked Fresh, All Day

The oven runs from 7:30 AM to closing. — so the tart in your hand is rarely more than sixty minutes old.

There is no overnight stock at Xin Fa. Trays go in every hour, sometimes more often when the line out the door tells the baker to push faster. The cake of egg tart custard is mixed in the morning and again in the afternoon. The barbecue pork buns are filled by hand all day long.

It is why the windows fog up by 9:30. It is why a Sunset Park morning still smells, on Eighth Avenue, of butter and yeast.

7:30 AM

開門Doors open · first trays

120 tarts

9:00 AM

第二爐Second bake · morning rush

200 tarts

11:30 AM

叉燒包Pork buns hit the case

All day

2:00 PM

下午Afternoon bake

160 tarts

5:30 PM

關門Closing · last tray

Sells out

A loaf of bread held in two hands, just out of the oven

緣起 Since 1989, From Taishan

1989 緣起
台山

A bakery from
Taishan, Guangdong. — that took root on 8th Avenue.

The family came from Taishan in the late 1980s, joining the wave of Cantonese-speaking Brooklynites who turned Sunset Park's 8th Avenue into Brooklyn's Chinatown. In 1989, they opened the first Xin Fa.

The recipes are old. The flour is from the same mill the founder used in his first year. The Portuguese egg tart, introduced after the Macanese style swept Guangdong in the early '90s, has cost $1.75 for as long as anyone working here can remember.

一九八九年，自廣東台山遠渡布魯克林。
三十六年來，一爐一爐，未曾改變。
葡式蛋撻 $1.75，今日如昔。

The 8th Avenue storefront, since 1989.5617 第八大道 · 自開業未遷

Want a half-dozen warm? Order ahead · 預訂取餐

(718) 871-2889

第八大道 8th Ave Anchor

The defining bakery
of Brooklyn's Chinatown. — or so the Times put it, and so the line out the door confirms.

"You walk Sunset Park's 8th Avenue and you smell tart custard before you read a single sign."

Xin Fa sits on the busiest block of Brooklyn's largest Chinatown: a corridor of fish markets, dumpling houses, herbal shops and karaoke parlors stretching forty blocks from the Gowanus Expressway south to 65th Street.

The bakery is its north star. Sister stores in Manhattan and Queens (Lily Bloom) followed, but the original 5617 storefront is the one that defined the neighborhood's appetite.

電話預訂 Call to Reserve

A dozen tarts. One phone call. — skip the line, especially on weekend mornings.

(718) 871-2889

歡迎電話預訂 · Call Ahead

Hours

7:30 — 17:30每日 · Daily

Address

5617 8th Ave布魯克林 · Brooklyn, NY 11220

Subway

N · 55 StD, N to 55th

5617 8th Avenue · Brooklyn · NY 11220

One tart.A dollar seventy-five. — and nothing about it has changed in thirty-six years.

The oven runs from 7:30 AM to closing. — so the tart in your hand is rarely more than sixty minutes old.

A bakery fromTaishan, Guangdong. — that took root on 8th Avenue.

Beyond the tart. — the rest of the case, by way of the menu board.

Want a half-dozen warm? Order ahead · 預訂取餐

The defining bakeryof Brooklyn's Chinatown. — or so the Times put it, and so the line out the door confirms.

A dozen tarts. One phone call. — skip the line, especially on weekend mornings.

One tart.
A dollar seventy-five. — and nothing about it has changed in thirty-six years.

A bakery from
Taishan, Guangdong. — that took root on 8th Avenue.

The defining bakery
of Brooklyn's Chinatown. — or so the Times put it, and so the line out the door confirms.