When the locals first approached the egg tarts, the dark crust often deterred them. "Everyone kept saying that it could give you cancer," she recalls. But though they might say that the egg tarts looked strange, once they ate them, they came back for more. Gradually, the egg tarts became all the rage.
葡式蛋撻開始推出時，澳門人看這種黑黑的蛋糕很不習慣，「都說吃了會致癌」，她形容，但說也奇怪，吃了之後都再來買，葡式蛋撻逐漸流行。