A baked cheese tart seen from above: fluted crust, pale creamy centre, golden blistered top

The Tart, Golden

Small, fluted, blistered — the name’s promise, held up round and close.

Bakery · 4.0 · 247 reviews · Saigon Centre

TartAnatomy

One small tart, taken apart to show what you see. Tap a layer to hold it up to the light.

Blistered golden crown

Creamy cheese centre

Fluted crust

03 · The blistered golden crownThe top of the tart, golden, darker in places where it blistered.Look at the tops in the case: no two brown in quite the same places.02 · The creamy cheese centrePale and soft-looking under the crown, ringed by the crust.The pale disc is what the crown frames — the middle of the tart, seen from above.01 · The fluted crustA rippled edge, golden at the rim, holding the tart’s round shape.The fluting is the tart’s outline in every photo — a small pie edge, crisp at the rim.

The row in the case

Pale gold to deep gold — the tops sit in a row, and the eye chooses by how golden the top is.

Pale gold, lightly blistered

A mid-gold tart top with a blistered crown

Mid gold, the crown showing

A deep-gold tart top, darkly blistered at the edges

Deep gold, dark at the edges

The deepest gold

A slow note, on warm wood

Eaten at the small round wood tables inside, or walking — the tart is small enough to hold in one hand, and the queue ends where the table begins.

The tart on the table, the tea beside it, the yellow bag underneath — as photographed in the shop.

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