By Chiu Chih-jou and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerA baker from Pingtung won first prize for his Three Kingdoms period-themed cake in the professional division of the San Diego Cake Show, which was held on Sunday and Monday last week. Jhai Yu-fan (翟宇凡) is a second-year student at the Department of Hotel and Restaurant Management at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. He wanted to bring an East Asian element to international cakemaking, which inspired him to use Lu Bu (呂布), a general who lived during the Three Kingdoms period in China, riding into battle for the design of his award-winning cake, Jhai said. In the process of designing the cake he fretted over its features to make it as vivid and life-like as possible, Jhai said. His schedule during the six months he worked on the cake involved taking a bus from Pingtung to a training center in Taipei each Thursday and returning to Pingtung every Sunday, Jhai said.

Source: Taipei Times March 26, 2018 15:56 UTC