Golden-coin cookies

Pun Veng: founder of Pun Veng Kei and inventor of the reduced-egg golden-coin cookie

Pun Veng

Pun Veng (also romanized Pun Wing) is the founder of Pun Veng Kei (潘榮記), a long-running Macau souvenir shop named after him. Founded around the 1940s (the exact year is undocumented; described as "70-odd years" old as of around 2014), it was famous for fully handmade golden-coin cookies (金錢餅), especially Pun Veng's self-invented reduced-egg version (減蛋金錢餅) — made with egg yolks only, with no egg whites and no artificial flavouring. He had baked cakes at the bakery San Cheong Kei (新昌記) before setting up a stall near Senado Square, running the shop with his wife and son at No. 1 Travessa da Fortaleza (大炮台街) near the Ruins of St Paul's. Macau Post issued a stamp depicting "Uncle Pun Veng making golden coin cookies," and the Macao Government Tourism Office promoted it as a must-try local specialty. The shop closed in 2013.