diff --git a/src/Handlebars/Tokenizer.php b/src/Handlebars/Tokenizer.php
index f3557bb..3562477 100644
--- a/src/Handlebars/Tokenizer.php
+++ b/src/Handlebars/Tokenizer.php
@@ -149,7 +149,15 @@ class Tokenizer
 
             switch ($this->state) {
             case self::IN_TEXT:
-                if ($this->tagChange($this->otag. self::T_TRIM, $text, $i) and !$this->escaped) {
+                // Handlebars.js does not think that openning curly brace in
+                // "\\\{{data}}" template is escaped. Instead it removes one
+                // slash and leaves others "as is". To emulate similar behavior
+                // we have to check the last character in the buffer. If it's a
+                // slash we actually does not need to escape openning curly
+                // brace.
+                $prev_slash = substr($this->buffer, -1) == '\\';
+
+                if ($this->tagChange($this->otag. self::T_TRIM, $text, $i) and (!$this->escaped || $prev_slash)) {
                     $this->flushBuffer();
                     $this->state = self::IN_TAG_TYPE;
                     $this->trimLeft = true;
@@ -157,7 +165,7 @@ class Tokenizer
                     $this->buffer .= "{{{";
                     $i += 2;
                     continue;
-                } elseif ($this->tagChange($this->otag, $text, $i) and !$this->escaped) {
+                } elseif ($this->tagChange($this->otag, $text, $i) and (!$this->escaped || $prev_slash)) {
                     $i--;
                     $this->flushBuffer();
                     $this->state = self::IN_TAG_TYPE;
diff --git a/tests/Xamin/HandlebarsTest.php b/tests/Xamin/HandlebarsTest.php
index 607ff3b..517549c 100644
--- a/tests/Xamin/HandlebarsTest.php
+++ b/tests/Xamin/HandlebarsTest.php
@@ -127,6 +127,16 @@ class HandlebarsTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                 array('data' => 'foo'),
                 '\\foo' // is equals to \foo in output
             ),
+            array(
+                '\\\\\\{{data}}', // is equal to \\\{{data}} in template file
+                array('data' => 'foo'),
+                '\\\\foo' // is equals to \\foo in output
+            ),
+            array(
+                '\\\\\\\\{{data}}', // is equal to \\\\{{data}} in template file
+                array('data' => 'foo'),
+                '\\\\\\foo' // is equals to \\\foo in output
+            ),
             array(
                 '\{{{data}}}', // is equal to \{{{data}}} in template file
                 array('data' => 'foo'),