Wu Baochun grew up in a poor family in the countryside of Pingtung. His father passed away when he was 12 years old, and his widowed mother Chen Wushan raised eight children, making him the eighth.
His homework was not very good. Later, Wu Baochun felt that his mother was too tired doing odd jobs every day, so after graduating from junior high school, he went to Taipei to work as a baker's apprentice.
When he was a child, when eating lunch at school, he always hid in an empty classroom to eat because he didn't want others to know that his lunch only contained a little white rice and few other side dishes.
After working as a traditional baker in "Takita" for more than ten years, I was introduced to new bread by Chen Fugu.
Is winning the Louis Lesaffre Bread Competition a world championship?
As the news of Wu Baochun’s schooling became hot, Professor Lu Ren of Ming Chuan University and senior writer of Business Weekly You Ziyan, etc. There are doubts about whether the Louis Lesaffre Bread Contest is a "worldwide" competition. First of all, Louis Lesaffre is a French private yeast company. This competition not only requires the use of French yeast, but also must use French flour T65, which has a strong commercial flavor. In addition, the competition is known as the "Olympia" in the bread industry, but the "Olympia" is only the name of the place where the Olympics originated, and has nothing to do with the "gram" of the Olympics, which has objective measurement standards such as running and long jump. This may lead to confusion; Professor Yan pointed out: Except for Taiwan, no country calls this bread competition the "Olympics of bread". Because "Olympics" is a special word, misuse may lead to prosecution by the Olympic Committee. The Taiwanese media sometimes calls it "the Olympia of the bakery industry" because Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympic Games, so there is no copyright and everyone can use it freely. However, there is no such title as "Olympia of..." abroad, because Olympia is a place name and cannot be used as an adjective. In addition, larger-scale bread competitions are common in Europe (such as Germany) and even France itself, so the name "World Champion" seems to be questionable. After winning the World Bread Competition, he worked as a consultant for bakeries such as "Haken Shop" and "Pasadena", and planned to open his own bakery in Kaohsiung.
On October 29, 2010, a trial sale was held in the "Dutingyuan" building opposite the Kaohsiung City Government Building.
On November 4, 2010, his personal store "Wu Baochun ( Mai Fang) store" officially opened in Kaohsiung.