{"id":76369,"date":"2026-02-14T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/beijing-pastry-shop-overrun-shoppers-xi-jinping-visit-lunar-new-year"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:17:36","slug":"beijing-pastry-shop-overrun-by-shoppers-after-xi-jinpings-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76369","title":{"rendered":"Beijing pastry shop overrun by shoppers after Xi Jinping\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers flock to Daoxiangcun to pick up cakes selected by the president during lunar new year tour around city<\/p>\n<p>A Beijing pastry shop visited by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on a lunar new year tour this week has been swarmed by customers hoping to get their hands on Xi-approved sweet treats.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was brought to a standstill in Beijing\u2019s capital as the president took a tour around the city on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/beijing-pastry-shop-overrun-shoppers-xi-jinping-visit-lunar-new-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers flock to Daoxiangcun to pick up cakes selected by the president during lunar new year tour around cityA Beijing pastry shop visited by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on a lunar new year tour this week has been swarmed by customers hoping &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76370,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76369\/revisions\/76370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}