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Kou Fong: from a 1902 teahouse to a century-old hand-made bakery on Rua do Cunha
Kou Fong
Founder of Fong Kei Bakery, named after him. Its predecessor was a teahouse already operating on Rua do Cunha in Taipa by 1902 (Guangxu 28); when the tea trade declined the family closed the teahouse and focused on hand-made traditional pastries. The fourth generation, Kou Chi Kei, took over in 2018, and the shop has been Michelin-recommended.
Wong Kit San: the man who made the almond cake Macau’s taste on Rua do Tercena in 1935
Wong Kit San
Founder of Choi Heong Yuen Bakery. He opened the shop at No. 20 Rua do Tercena, Macau in 1935, built around the almond cake; his nephew Wong Wing Cheong later took over and refined the recipe, and in the 1980s the firm introduced Japanese automatic packaging machines that reshaped how Macau souvenirs were sold and presented.
Wong Wun Chi: one bamboo pole, one bowl of silver-thread noodles, from Shilong to Rua da Felicidade
Wong Wun Chi
Founder of Wong Chi Kei. A Dongguan native, he went to Guangzhou in the 1940s to learn bamboo-pole noodle-making from fellow townsman Wong King Tong; in 1946 he founded the business with his wife Lai Yuet Man in Shilong, Dongguan, and in 1959 moved the shop to No. 51 Rua da Felicidade in Macau, where his silver-thread noodles and shrimp-roe soup made the name famous across the territory through three generations.
Leong Chan Kuong: from a street peanut-candy cart to Macau’s biggest souvenir brand
Leong Chan Kuong
Founder of Koi Kei Bakery. He started selling peanut and ginger candy from a street cart, opened his first shop in 1997, and rode the post-handover mainland tourism boom to build Koi Kei into Macau’s leading souvenir brand, with roughly 70% market share.