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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.
Lei Kai-iok: founder of Pastelaria Chui Heong and its charcoal-roasted almond cookies
Lei Kai-iok
Lei Kai-iok is the founder of Pastelaria Chui Heong (最香餅家), a long-running Macau souvenir bakery. Founded in 1957, it is famous for hand-pounded, charcoal-roasted almond cookies (杏仁餅) and is the only bakery in Macau still making almond cookies in a charcoal oven. It began as a pushcart and a front-shop-back-factory workshop on Rua dos Três Candeeiros (三層樓街); per Macau Memory, his wife Lai Oi-chan (黎愛珍) carried products to restaurants by shoulder-pole. In the 1980s the shop moved to its current Rua do Gamboa (夜呣街) premises in the St Lawrence district. The brand is now run by second-generation Lei Chi-iong (李志勇) and third-generation Lei Chun-ming (李俊明); it was named among the first batch of official "Macau Characteristic Old Shops" in 2019 and received a Tourism Merit Medal in 2023.