Bakers make birthday cakes at an international bakery exhibition in Beijing on Jun 9, 2021. The bakery expo kicked off on Tuesday to display fondant cakes, breads and pastries.

French native Jean-Pierre Morel, now in his 50s, has loved the smell of baking since he was a little boy. At the age of 16, he became an apprentice at a bakery in Paris. When he was 24, he opened his first bakery, and now has three independent bakeries in...

Gingerbread fans
Parents and their kids make gingerbread houses at Domain bakery, at East Beijing hotel. [Photo/China Daily]

Sweet and savory confection becomes a holiday favorite in China, Mike Peters reports.
Yang Yongfang (also kn...

In 2003, Benjamin Devos worked at an international hotel in Beijing for seven months, and that short stay changed the young Frenchman's life.
Seeing authentic French bakeries prosper in many big cities around the world - but not in the Chinese cap...

Bakery rising to the challenge
Wang Siming is a 25-year-old baker's apprentice who suffers from learning disabilities.
He wakes early every day to take a bus to work. He meets his co-workers at around 8:30 am to start preparing ingredients for...