China News Service, Ningbo, May 3 (Reporter Lin Bo) "This is the tenth May Day holiday since our dessert shop opened." In the Yuan Desserts shop, the "post-90s" Taiqing Chen Siyuan is busy making desserts-Taiwanese puffs. "Every holiday, local diners meet foreign tourists, and the products of dessert shops are often in short supply."

A view of the ancient city of Shipu Fishing Port.

Photo by Lin Bo

  Take out the baked puffs, poke a hole in the bottom of the puffs, and squeeze the cream in. In Chen Siyuan's hands, the puffs with soft outside and soft inside are completed.

As soon as these puffs were completed, they were brought to the customer's table.

Chen Siyuan also started to make the next batch of puffs.

  "Busy" is a true portrayal of Chen Siyuan's "May 1st" holiday. "Just keep doing things as soon as I open my eyes. This is a different kind of "sweet trouble" during the holiday."

A view of the ancient city of Shipu Fishing Port.

Photo by Lin Bo

  Shipu Port is a well-known national central fishing port along the southeast coast of China. The island of Shibali Harbor is surrounded by mountains and can accommodate ten thousand fishing boats and can sail ten thousand tons of sea vessels.

Shipu people have lived on the sea for generations, and they contain many magical fishing cultures and customs, which are rich and expansive.

  The Shipu Port has ebb and flow, from Keelung, Taiwan to Shipu, Xiangshan. In April 2012, "post-90s" Taiqing Chen Siyuan and his father Chen Zhendong aimed at the mainland dessert market, opening the way for father and son to start their own businesses—making authentic flavors Taiwan’s milk tea and desserts, and turned it into a local online celebrity shop.

  Fish lanterns, conch flowers, shell wind chimes... Walking into Shipu Fishing Port’s ancient city, you will see the breath of the sea. The unique “fisher’s house” culture has attracted Chen Siyuan, who has first arrived in Shipu. “This is a building with the same maritime atmosphere as Keelung In this small town, there is a feeling of homecoming, especially the faint smell of seafood in the air."

  At this point, Chen Siyuan took root in this small town. Every day, he walked along the stone road, listened to fishermen's songs, and made desserts in this ancient street to welcome visitors from all over the world.

  Chen Siyuan explained that the business of the dessert shop was not ideal at first, "because the locals did not like sweet food in their dietary preferences, I also had the idea of ​​closing the door."

  But thanks to Chen Siyuan's dessert innovation and Internet development, his dessert shop has also ushered in new opportunities for development.

  "First of all, after the desserts were improved, the taste was recognized by the locals." Chen Siyuan said bluntly, which made him very proud. "The products have been passed down by the locals, and consumers are also the most stable small town repeat customers."

Chen Siyuan's dessert shop.

Photo by Lin Bo

  From a dessert shop that locals love to an online celebrity shop "out of the circle", Chen Siyuan attributed the reason to enjoying the development dividend of the Internet.

  "After the experience, many customers made check-in reviews on Internet platforms such as Moments. This attracted people on the Internet to try it out, and the store was affirmed by more people." In Chen Siyuan's view, it is accompanied by the Internet." "Out of the circle", his dessert shop has also become a new landmark in the ancient fishing port, "especially on holidays, every table is full, and there are people queuing every day."

  The "May Day" holiday undoubtedly brought a lot of passengers to this old street in the ancient city. From morning to night, Chen Siyuan's dessert shop also became busy following the rhythm of the old street.

  Chen Siyuan cherishes the heat brought by the Internet very much. He clearly realizes that only by maintaining good taste and service can the store become popular.

  "On the road to entrepreneurship, there are many difficulties, but as long as you are willing to endure hardships, you will have unlimited possibilities for success." From the attitude of having a try to the small reputation now, looking at this old street of Shipu Fishing Port where people come and go, Ten years of entrepreneurship has made Chen Siyuan a deep insight. "Take this May 1st holiday as an example, and the vitality of development is once again reflected. Our store is a representative of integrating into the mainland market and sharing the development dividend." (End)