Safe and sweet

Mao Chen's handmade nougats are made of fresh and wholesome ingredients-and fairy tales. Her online business is booming, she tells Fan Zhen about her toothsome tour de force.

When Mao Chen first read the story of how two children ate magic marshmallows made of clouds and flew to deliver dinner for their father on a rainy day, the idea of linking sweets and fairy tales became an inspiration.

She says food satisfies the palate but also motivates the imagination. That is why her online shop selling handmade nougats is called Cloud Jaja, and her sweets are given lyrical names like Beyond the Clouds, A Place in the Heart, Remote Mountains and Sinking Moon.