Created by French pastry chef Pierre Hermé with the help of ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs, the series contains three flavors: strawberry, raspberry, and chocolate and lemon grapefruit.

该系列由法国糕点师Pierre Hermé在冰淇淋品牌哈根达斯的帮助下创作，包含三种口味：草莓、覆盆子、巧克力和柠檬葡萄柚。

Hermé is renowned as the pastry chef who cooperated with the French Space Agency to send macarons into space a few years ago.

几年前，爱马仕与法国航天局合作，将马卡龙送入太空，成为著名的糕点师。

Dubbed the "Picasso of Pastry", Hermé, who regularly collaborates with furniture, decoration and jewelry brands, said he hopes to "reach new heights" with the new collection.

被称为“糕点中的毕加索”的爱马仕经常与家具、装饰和珠宝品牌合作，他表示希望通过新系列“达到新的高度”。

Bakery chain La Rose Noire made its return to the Chinese market inspired by the country's booming frozen pastry industry after the nation optimized its COVID-19 control measures, according to the company's senior executives.

面包连锁店La Rose Noire的高管表示，在中国优化了新冠肺炎控制措施后，受中国蓬勃发展的冷冻糕点业的启发，该公司重返中国市场。

"The bakery and pastry industry in China has changed dramatically in the last four years and COVID has accelerated this transition," said Denis Vergneau, general manager of Sinodis.

Sinodis总经理Denis Vergneau表示：“过去四年，中国的面包和糕点行业发生了巨大变化，新冠肺炎加速了这一转变。”。

This inspired the first batch of products launched in seven categories — tarts, baskets, ice cream cones, chocolates, macarons, bread and Danish pastries.

这启发了第一批推出的七类产品——馅饼、篮子、冰淇淋筒、巧克力、马卡龙、面包和丹麦糕点。

However, demand in the frozen pastry market during the pandemic is what truly caught their attention.

然而，真正引起他们注意的是疫情期间冷冻糕点市场的需求。

"In recent years, we have seen the rapid development and enormous potential of the frozen pastry market in China, as well as the demand for semi-finished and finished high-end frozen pastry products in the industry," said Gerard Dubois, founder, and chairman of La Rose Noire.

La Rose Noire创始人兼董事长Gerard Dubois表示：“近年来，我们看到了中国冷冻糕点市场的快速发展和巨大潜力，以及行业对半成品和成品高端冷冻糕点的需求。”。

According to a research report about the country's bakery industry released by Dongguan Securities in February, the market size of China's bakery industry has steadily increased, especially the frozen pastry market, which increased from 500 million yuan ($72.6 million) in 2008 to 11.1 billion yuan in 2021.

根据东莞证券2月份发布的一份关于中国烘焙业的研究报告，中国烘焙业市场规模稳步增长，尤其是冷冻糕点市场，从2008年的5亿元人民币（7260万美元）增长到2021年的111亿元人民币。

It later grew into a dessert supplier of over 700 bakeries, with pastry and chocolate products distributed in five continents over 57 countries and regions.

后来，它发展成为一家拥有700多家面包店的甜点供应商，糕点和巧克力产品分布在五大洲57个国家和地区。

According to Vergneau, fusing local flavors into Western pastries is an exciting new trend: "More Chinese ingredients are used in traditional Western pastries and Chinese pastries use more Western ingredients, displaying a mix of cultures in the pastry market. "

Vergneau表示，将当地风味融入西方糕点是一种令人兴奋的新趋势：“传统西方糕点中使用了更多的中国食材，而中国糕点使用了更多西方食材，在糕点市场上展示了文化的混合。”

Meanwhile, Pizza Hut is dishing out ready-to-eat pizzas and snacks to frontline workers, while Lavazza has been providing freshly brewed coffee and pastries to certain neighborhoods.

与此同时，必胜客正在向一线员工分发即食披萨和小吃，而Lavazza则一直在向某些社区提供现煮咖啡和糕点。

E-commerce giant JD has donated fresh produces such as milk, meat and pastries worth 4 million yuan ($628,700) to address the demand in Shanghai.

电子商务巨头京东捐赠了价值400万元人民币（62.87万美元）的牛奶、肉类和糕点等新鲜农产品，以满足上海的需求。

Unique to the Shanghai store are offerings from merchandise co-created with a local illustrator to a pastry palette featuring local specialties.

上海店的独特之处在于，从与当地插画师合作创作的商品到以当地特色菜为特色的糕点调色板。

It now has a portfolio of 30 brands from over 10 countries and regions, supplying star-rated hotels, restaurants, and pastry, bakery and beverage chains with over 1,000 products covering dairy, pastry, beverages, gourmet and grocery.

它现在拥有来自10多个国家和地区的30个品牌，为星级酒店、餐厅、糕点、面包店和饮料连锁店提供1000多种产品，涵盖乳制品、糕点、饮料、美食和杂货。

These plant-based alternatives can be made into Chinese pastries like dumplings and meat buns, as well as burgers, nuggets and sausages, for instance.

Teaming up with local brewery Shanghai Jinfeng Wine, Freshippo is also using rice liquor as an ingredient to produce chocolate cakes, honey cakes and a traditional Chinese pastry.

Other successful cases include the blend of a traditional sticky rice pastry with internet celebrity milk tea brand Heytea, which quickly became a sought-after item since it debuted.

Atiya said GoFa can be adopted, for example, in bakery stores, performing the task of taking out freshly-baked pastries on a tray.

"The Fonterra chef team will cook some fancy, tasty, fun and innovative applications that fuse New Zealand dairy and Chinese cuisine," Washer said, adding some new debuts included cheese walnut pastries and black gold cheese pastries.

Founded in 2003 and based in Hangzhou, Be & Cheery is a convenient foods company with a broad product portfolio including nuts, dried fruits, dried meat, pastries and puffed food with over 1,000 kinds of merchandise.

Wuhan-headquartered Bestore Food Co Ltd, which generates most of its sales selling meat snacks, nuts, candies and pastries, saw its suppliers in Hubei resume production on March 23.

Bestore, founded in 2006 in Wuhan, Hubei province —epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak — generated most of its sales from selling meat snacks, nuts, candies and pastries.

Sales of yeast, a necessity for making bread and pastries, soared by nearly 40 times while dumpling wrappers were sold seven times more than before.

In Shanghai, time-honored brands including Dafugui, bakery and restaurant chain Xing Hua Lou, Western-style pastry chain Kaisiling, and Xiaoshaoxing Restaurant, have also launched food delivery services, said Wang Yanan, head of Ele.

At the Peninsula Hotel, the afternoon tea service has been changed for the festive period to include a range of Christmas pastries.

A string of time-honored brands, including Quanjude Roast Duck, Daoxiangcun pastries, Yueshengzhai, a brand selling pickled beef and mutton for more than 230 years, are among those that are available on the platform.

"The traditional pastries are boring," said Chen.

But traditional pastry joints are usually just takeaway windows.

It also offers various Chinese teas to go with other pastry foods.

The brand does not include coffee options on its menu - an attempt to sensitize younger consumers to the essence of Chinese pastry, without any Western drinks influencing their tastebuds.

"Given the ongoing consumption upgrade trend in China, we hope to attract more diverse consumers to Chinese pastry.

"A few years ago, many mooncake makers were desperate to innovate their recipes, so they stuffed fish, shrimp and beef into their pastry.

The list of fast foods that can be bought online in China, which includes restaurant deliveries, takeaways, burgers, pizzas and the like, just got longer with the entry of hand-made stuffed pastries like pineapple cakes.

Hsu Fu Chi International Ltd, a Guangdong province-based Chinese snack and candy maker, and JD, China's second-largest e-commerce platform, have joined forces to overcome typical problems faced in online sales of snacks like pastries, like food going stale and inordinate delay in delivery.

Earlier this year, Hsu Fu Chi opened its exclusive offline shop "ChengWeiKongjian" in Dongguan, Guangdong province, offering hand-made pastries in its well-decorated shop to enhance consumer experiences.

For a good example of how China's time-honored brands are embracing new retail channels, consider Century Yili, a bakery that's long been famous for its delicious pastries and breads.

Additionally, to reduce the cost of raising cattle, the banner has invested more than 10 million yuan for the introduction of straw comprehensive utilization technology, that can turn corn straw that would typically cause pollution when burning into "sweet pastry".

The data also revealed that besides big meals, consumers are showing greater interest in snacks, beverages, pastries and other food items in small eateries during the holiday.

Freshippo uses rice liquor as an ingredient to produce a chocolate cake, a honey cake and a traditional Chinese-style pastry.

The street is busy throughout the year, with outlets selling roujiamo (beef burgers), huashengsu (peanut pastries) and paomo scattered along the 600-meter thoroughfare.

The museum has opened the square between its two wings of the main buildings on Nanjing Road West to the public, and presented a marketplace featuring coffee and urban lifestyle stalls, where 36 exhibitors are offering their freshly brewed coffee, drip coffee, freeze-dried coffee powder, as well as pastries, handicrafts and lifestyle brands.

The market for Chinese-style pastries is projected to expand in the future, spurred by increasing demand among young adults and the growing pursuit of more wholesome diets among the people.

Amid the boom, Chinese bakery products such as mung bean cake, pineapple pastries, sesame seed cookies and buns made with glutinous rice are becoming increasingly popular, partly because of promotion by social media influencers who throng to give reviews of Chinese-style bakeries and make recommendations, said the report.

"As people are attaching greater significance to healthy lifestyles and diets, Chinese makers of pastries are also adjusting their product portfolios to highlight more healthy foods that are low in sugar and fat," said the report, adding that Chinese bakers have an advantage in that they can incorporate traditional healthy ingredients such as black sesame seeds into bakery products.

There are also many takers for a fusion of Chinese mooncakes and Western pastries, such as mooncakes with cheese fillings.

At Malaysia's Sarawak Pavilion, Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, Sarawak's minister for tourism, creative industry and performing arts, introduced local specialities to visitors, including pastries, black pepper, tuak (a Sarawak wine), bird's nest and Laksa or a noodle dish with broth made of herbs, spices, and coconut milk.

Sushi, for example, originally priced at over 100 yuan ($13.99) or Chinese pastries and cooked food priced at over 30 yuan can now be purchased at around 70 percent discounts.

The report from Ourui showed that in 2022, among all snacks consumed by Chinese consumers, flavored snacks — including meat, salty and fried nuts — were the most popular categories taking up 38 percent, while pastries took up 34 percent.

In terms of candy, pastries, fruit and meat snacks, Chinese brands are gradually developing and taking considerable market shares.

Li Shengfu, a master of making Anhua Dark Tea, is optimistic about the market prospects of dark tea's synergy with pastries and popular beverages.

While mooncakes made in China, Singapore and Malaysia remain popular in Australia, there has been an upswing in interest this year for pastries made locally, SBS News reported on Thursday.

pastries traditionally featuring lotus seed paste, red bean or nut fillings - are eaten and shared throughout the festival.

Without disclosing specific numbers, Meituan Maicai said its sales of semi-cooked meals and pastries in 2021 increased by four times over 2020.

The report, issued by TF Securities, said that by May 2020, there were over 2,000 types of foods and beverages containing hyaluronic acid, among which 554 were commonplace consumables such as dairy products, cookies, candies and pastries.

Competitions such as World Chocolate Master, World Pastry Award and Cacao Producer Country Excellence are also expected to be staged during the Shanghai edition, according to Sinoexpo Informa Markets.

There are five competition categories for this year's competition: Western Cuisine Challenge, Chinese Cuisine Challenge, Pastry Challenge, Bakery Challenge, and China International Young Chef Challenge.

Two Chinese contestants will represent China in the Asian Pastry Cup, which will be held in Singapore next year, and compete for the qualification of World Pastry Cup 2023 in Lyon, France.

Announced during the closing section of the third China Pastry Cup, jointly organized by the China Association of Bakery and Confectionery Industry and the Executive Committee of the CPC, held in Shanghai in late April, Zhou Zihao, from the sugar art category, and Zhao Chengsa, from chocolate category, won the competition in their categories.

Pastry chefs describe the World Pastry Cup as one of the top competitions in the world.

Although they haven't yet won the prize, Chinese pastry chefs have been constantly improving their skill, according to the event's organizers.

Teaming up with local brewery Shanghai Jinfeng Wine, Freshippo is using rice liquor as an ingredient to produce one chocolate cake, one honey cake and a traditional Chinese-style pastry.

In addition to eat-in and takeout meals, Peking roast duck restaurant chain Dadong offers ready-to-eat prepackaged roast duck, sauces and other foods such as pastries and traditional Chinese rice pudding via its flagship store on JD and Tmall－Alibaba's online shopping platform.

Franchises draw up and implement expansion plansInternational catering brands, from fast food franchises to cafe chains and pastry shops, are continually entering and expanding rapidly in China, with their sights set firmly on young customers.

More people have also fostered a hobby of baking while spending more time at home, and this has driven the consumption of yeast for baking cakes and pastries.

For breakfast, there are options of fried noodles, fried rice, Chinese pastries, and marinated egg.

For breakfast, there are options like fried noodles, fried rice, Chinese pastries and marinated egg.

Durians are used in many dishes - mille-feuille slices, cake rolls, puff pastry, ice-cream and durian cheese pizza - although it is considered a love-it-or-hate-it fruit.

It was a time when China's economy had just started to revive, and candies and pastries were in short supply in small cities.

Zhang reenergizes herself with some pastry, washing it down with a cup of refreshing black tea, while allowing her mind to float with the soothing soft music flowing out of invisible hi-fi speakers embedded in the studio walls.

Similar to Chen's wonton business, a pastry shop run by Ye Cai in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, has also been affected by the pandemic.

Similar to Chen's wonton business, a pastry shop run by Ye Cai in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, has also been affected by the epidemic.

The novel payment method is available in Qiaojiashan, a traditional Shanghai pastry chain, and Wuzhong Market, which gained fame online following an agreement with luxury brand Prada earlier this year.

Supplying more than 200 supermarkets with flour, brown sugar steamed bread and various types of frozen pastry, Junkai Food Co Ltd in Haishu district of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, is among the first batch of small businesses that obtained provincial permits for emergency supply transportation during the fight against the epidemic.