ShanghaiApril 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From April 22 to 23, the 2026 Asian Pastry Cup kicked off in Singapore. The Chinese team, composed of the champions of the 2025 China Dessert Championship and led by team leader Zhu Xiandong, showcased exceptional pastry-making skills through exquisite techniques and unique creativity, competing alongside seven other Asian teams. The participating teams in this year’s event came from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore, collectively highlighting the innovative vitality and humanistic care of Asian pastry art.
2026 Asian Pastry Cup Chinese Team
Founded in 2006 and held biennially in Singapore, the Asian Pastry Cup is widely recognized as a key pathway to the World Pastry Cup. This year’s competition covered plated desserts, travel cakes, and frozen dessert combinations. The theme display required works to address “Corals and Whales & Dolphins: Endangered Marine Life,” with sugar art and chocolate integrated into a single piece to present a dialogue between nature and human activities from multiple perspectives.
This year’s Chinese team consisted of Wang Sheng and Sun Tongtong, who respectively won the chocolate and sugar art categories at the 5th China Dessert Championship in 2025, both representing China at the Asian Pastry Cup for the second time. At the 2024 Singapore event, the duo partnered for the first time and successfully advanced to the World Pastry Cup, achieving a historic best result of fourth place. Wang Sheng, known for his innovative spirit and flavor aesthetics, served as a national team coach for the sugar art and pastry category at the 46th and 47th World Skills Competitions and was named a “National Technical Expert” in 2020. Sun Tongtong, also a National Technical Expert and a first-class pastry chef, won a gold medal for China in the Digital Skills Competition for Desserts and Chocolates in 2021 and was awarded the title of “21st National Young Expert” by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in 2022.
2026 Asian Pastry Cup Chinese Team Creative Works
This year’s Chinese team leader, Zhu Xiandong, previously served as a committee member for the 5th China Dessert Championship in 2025. As early as 2009 and 2011, he won bronze and gold awards, respectively, in the chocolate buffet art display at the Shanghai International Chef Competition. In 2017, Zhu led his team to win the inaugural China Dessert Championship and the Best Team Award; in 2018, he represented China at the Asian Dessert Championship, earning the Best Chocolate Art and Best Team awards; and in 2019, he served as captain of the Chinese team at the World Pastry Cup in Lyon, France.
In this year’s competition, responding to the theme “Corals and Whales & Dolphins: Endangered Marine Life,” the Chinese team presented a display piece titled “Echoes of the Deep: Abandonment and Rebirth.” The work used a stark contrast between chocolate and sugar art to narrate the ocean’s trauma and hope: the chocolate portion featured deep brown tones to shape shipwrecks and discarded cans, metaphorically representing industrial civilization’s erosion of the sea; the sugar art portion used translucent blue-green sugar to depict humpback whales and dolphins leaping out of the water, symbolizing the resilience and rebirth of life. With one dark and one light, one heavy and one light, the piece called on people to confront ocean pollution and protect this fragile yet beautiful “Echo of the Deep” through visual conflict.
2026 Asian Pastry Cup Chinese Team Theme Display Piece
The outstanding performance of the Chinese team at this Asian Pastry Cup not only demonstrated the growth and potential of Chinese pastry chefs on the international stage but also set a new benchmark for the domestic pastry industry. Through competing alongside top international talents, the Chinese team accumulated valuable competition experience, fostering skill exchanges and concept updates, and advancing the alignment of China’s pastry industry with global frontiers. Looking ahead, the new China Dessert Championship is set to commence, selecting a new generation of outstanding pastry chefs to prepare for the 2028 Asian Pastry Cup. It is believed that Chinese pastry chefs will continue to forge ahead and achieve even greater success on the international stage!