Gukeng Beckham—A tough guy with a tender heart, pastry chef Tian Dian.
Gukeng’s Baker Han doesn’t play football; at 5 a.m. the team assembles in the pineapple fields to train. No golden right foot here—only farmers harvesting by hand. Not eight hearts and eight arrows, but Golden Diamond pineapples just as sweet and precious.
At the foot of Janfusun, this Beckham is whipping up a tangy-sweet pineapple-dessert craze.