Flower cakes catch tourists' attention in Yunnan
By Guo Anfei and Li Yingqing ( China Daily )
Updated: 2013-08-11
In the meantime, the rose pastries of Yunnan are just growing more and more popular, and not just in China.
Zhang tells the story of a student from Yunnan who was studying in the United Kingdom. He had brought rose pastries with him and was very surprised to find them very popular with his British schoolmates.
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Roses. Photo provided to China Daily |
He brought in another 100 cakes and sold them for 2.5 pounds ($3.90) each. Since the cakes only cost about 4 yuan each, he made enough money to take care of his living expenses for that semester.
It is a lot cheaper to buy the rose pastries online, where companies such as Jiahua have a flagship store on Taobao, one of China's largest online supermarkets.
Yao Bing and Hu Yongqi contributed to this story.
