World Cake Competition, 3 gold and 2 bronze one battle to become famous! Zhou Yi, the legendary life from the scum to the sugar king.
Works by Zhou Yi
In 2017, at the British International Cake Competition, the female reporter extended her microphone to the young lad who won the championship: "Your work was rated as the best in the whole game, it is really fantastic, which country are you from?" ”
The young man shouted excitedly in a trembling and firm voice:
“China！”
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Born in Sichuan in 1983, Zhou Yi was a complete scumbag when he was a child, his academic performance was very poor, and there were very few times when he could pass the examinations in various subjects, which made his family can't help but worry about his future.
His family was very ordinary, his parents were both workers, and his father came home from work and always liked to play with handicraft gadgets, over time.
Although Zhou Yi is a scumbag, he also fiddles with his father, and also shows his talent for painting and carving.
Unfortunately, these talents were not valued by his family, and Zhou Yi began to prepare for the college entrance examination according to the rules, and the results were obvious.
Zhou Yi
If he didn't have good grades, he learned a craft, so he went to Sichuan Culinary College, and with a talent for painting and carving, he chose to major in cooking and food arts and crafts.
Here, he met a life-changing man, Wang Long, and learned to carve and sculpt under him.
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Zhou Yi, who found hobbies, buried his head in the world of face sculpture, in this wonderful world, he became suddenly cheerful, and he was originally a little introverted, and decided to see the outside world.
During the holidays, he embarked on a journey to Yiwu alone, where he saw everything he had never seen before, he longed, but he feared.
After returning, he borrowed money from his parents to buy a batch of small jewelry, ready to set up a stall, and exercise his shy and introverted personality.
On the first day out, he didn't even take out anything, so he hurried home, and for the next three days.
On the fifth day, he plucked up his courage and finally began to set up the stall.
A month later, all the inventory was sold out, and he earned 1200 yuan, and that year, his parents' salary was 1500 yuan.
With this experience, Zhou Yi has changed, he is no longer introverted, and for many things, he also boldly tries and pursues unremittingly.
After graduation, Zhou Yi began to look for teachers to visit in order to learn the traditional carved pastry noodles.
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Although the face sculpture is exquisite and good-looking, it is generally inedible, it looks a bit like a "flower shelf", coupled with the high price, it is really rare, and its investment value is not as good as traditional handicrafts, such as pottery, root carving, etc.
Where will the face molding process go? Zhou Yi had a heart knot.
By chance, Zhou Yi came into contact with the process of turning sugar shaping, which is not only malleable, but also edible.
Turn sugar flowers
Zhou Yi suddenly smelled the business opportunity.
The Western process of turning sugar is usually just kneaded with sugar paste, so it is difficult to achieve a very fine shape of things.
Zhou Yi began to teach himself, from the concept of turning sugar to raw materials, constantly groping and immersing himself in hard work.
Kung Fu pays off, he will be the traditional Chinese face molding techniques and food carving techniques, applied to the Western-style sugar turning process, developed a more suitable for the use of various techniques of sugar paste, so that the sugar paste can be like 3D printing to shape the desired image.
In order to make his skills more exquisite, he went to visit the world's first sugar king SK and constantly learned to enrich himself.
Zhou Yi had seen superb sugar-turning works abroad and had been thinking about it ever since.
"I want to use our country's unique skills to blend dough molding and carving with Western techniques to make a sugar cake that belongs to our style."
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Zhou Yi participated in the World Cake Contest with his work "Drunken Sleep and Forgetfulness", which was originally contested in the K group, but found that the work disappeared.
Zhou Yi went to the jury, but was told that it was because of the foul. It turned out that the icing sugar block that made the lake water was too hard to cut, which did not conform to the rules of this group.
"Drunken sleep and forget the worries"
But this work is too beautiful, it is really ingenious, so after consultation, the judges changed the group for this work, and finally Zhou Yi won the bronze award.
Wu Zetian
However, to say that his most powerful work is still the "Wu Zetian" that finally won him the World Cake Competition, this work took 15 days, in a high-intensity work state of 16 hours a day, he and his team to complete this earth-shattering work.
Details of Zhou Yi's work
Now Zhou Yi runs a bakery, still able to come out on top in international cake competitions, he loves his career, constantly challenges himself, and lives a life he likes.
If you love one thing, keep doing it. Perhaps foreigners can't imagine that a Chinese guy will push the sugar turning process to a new height.
The nation is the world, and integrating the nation into the world is even more powerful.
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