Lord Stow's Bakery

Andrew Stow, an English pharmacist from Essex who had worked for the Boots drugstore chain, moved to Macau in 1979 to work at Anglo French Laboratories. Ten years later, on 15 September 1989, he opened a bakery on Coloane Island that became Macau's first Western-style roadside bakery, an idea that grew out of a health-food business importing flour for expatriate home bakers.

On a trip to Portugal in the mid-1980s, Stow encountered pasteis de nata, the egg tarts that trace to Belém, Lisbon, in 1837. Without an original recipe to work from, he experimented using his pharmaceutical training, departing from conventional methods and ingredients and adding an English touch of his own. The result became known across Asia as the Macau-style Portuguese egg tart, a recipe Stow created rather than imported.

The Macau SAR government awarded Stow its Medal of Tourism Merit in January 2006 in recognition of the tart's creation; he died later that year, on 25 October, from an asthma attack. His family has continued the bakery from the same Coloane site, still baking the tart from his original recipe.