Bring your euro coins to this unassuming alleyway shop and make a breakfast of its unique dolci castagnina — warm circular pastries baked with chestnuts, salt, milk, pine nuts and raisins (1.60 euros each).
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Using an 8 centimeter (3.1 in) circular cutter, cut 9 rounds from each sheet of puff pastry.
Use a 6cm circular cutter to form the biscuits, or use a knife to cut out 4cm squares of pastry.
(Dong Phuong also makes something called bánh bao núóng, a hat-shaped pastry filled with pork, pink sausage, and hard-boiled egg, and thit va hành, a circular pork-and-onion pastry, but neither of those rise to the Platonic ideal of the bánh quai vac thit).
Then cover evenly with the sugar, and arrange the pears on the top, cut-side up. 2 Roll out the puff pastry on a lightly floured board to about 3mm thickness, trying to keep the shape as circular as possible; it should end up larger in circumference than the pan with the pears.
The pastry is a bit of a pain to make at home but most Turkish, North African or Mediterranean stores sell it in circular shapes or big folded sheets in the chilled cabinet.
