Pastry or ice cream: what matters most? The Japanese Hiroyuki Emori has been one of the first chefs in the world to decide that this was not a choice to make, but a precious fusion! Chef Emori (Maison Givrée（メゾン ジブレー）」) clearly showed it off when he...
Pure white textures, whales and shells all around, as relaxing and refreshing as wandering in the ocean. It’s the feeling you have when entering “L.Z. Dessart”, a unique dessert shop located near Qinmei Green Park Road in Taichung, Taipei. Surrounded by oneiric sea elements and...
Some places sharpen your inner sense and are a permanent source of inspiration. Wagashi House and Maison Zero in Vietnam are two of them. We are challenged by people who have a real passion and taste for pastry and gelato art, right? Seeing Wagashi House...
Running a Gelato Business is an exciting and challenging task by any measure - arguably even more so if you are a woman in Asia. A recent US census showed that women make up less than the 24% of chefs. And for many of them, particularly...
Louie Ye is known as “Godfather of Chinese Pastry”. He’s also the General Dessert Designer of the popular Chinese television series To be A Better Man (2016), directed by Zhang Xiaobo and starring the famous Sun Honglei and Lay Zhang. What’s curious is that the...
It is one of those exciting stories that journalists love to tell. The first article I read about Mirko Febbrile was putting in the spotlight his journey from Puglia to Singapore: “a young Italian cook hustling at his local McDonald’s to pay his way through...
Born in Macau and raised in Hong Kong (his family moved there when he was 6 years old), Chef Kuok I Hoi is the Executive Pastry Chef at the majestic Galaxy Macau, and he is also a judge at the World Association of Chefs’ Societies....
Young and talented, Jeffrey Wang [Jiachen Wang 王家承] is one of the most promising Taiwanese pastry chefs. Locals know him because, after specialising in French Pâtisserie, he used to be the Executive Pastry Chef at SPOT, a famous American restaurant in Taipei City. Well, there’s much more...
Fascinated by music and culinary arts since he was a kid, the Italian Angelo Ciccone is now the Executive Chef at Regent Singapore. Chef Ciccone loves being hands on and he rocks in heading all the hotel’s culinary operations. If one wants to get impressed...
After having sharpened senses and skills all around the world, the 37-year-old winner of the Valrhona C3 competition (2018 edition) Yusuke Aoki is back in Japan. The birthplace of this World Pastry Champion is setting the start of a big new challenge. How did...