{"id":2437,"date":"2021-12-02T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2021-12-13T06:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:11:46","slug":"candy-store-draws-inspiration-from-fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/candy-store-draws-inspiration-from-fairytale\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Store Draws Inspiration from Fairytale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WwFvkIrOLOq8k8-whfORN167O_7eZB8e\/preview\" width=\"720\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Journalism student Poojaraj Maniyeri reports on a candy store that keeps a fairytale alive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Poojaraj Maniyeri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DUBAI \u2013 Hans and Gretel, located in Mirdif City Center, is a confectionary shop based on a German fairytale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in February 2021, the store has food items such as sweets, desserts and signature items like the chimney cake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff member Angeli Medrano said that customers \u201ccan choose the cone, sprinkles, toppings and flavor of the ice cream.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the customers choose the ingredients they want and the customer can view the staff preparing their food accordingly in front of them. A variety of desserts such as ice cream, donuts, waffle cones and others can be customized at Hans and Gretel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior of the shop draws inspiration from the German fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, Hans and Gretel. The front of the store is designed like the countryside house from the fairytale. The store includes an area modeled as a room in the fairytale house with an LED light fireplace, a large model of a cooking pot and old-fashioned seats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medrano said that some children refuse to come into the room because they fear the witch in the fairytale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hans and Gretel has games where customers can collect souvenirs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medrano said that \u201cnot only children but teenagers, adults, parents, grandparents are all interested\u201d to come to the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-1024x573.jpg\" class=\"td-modal-image\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-696x390.jpg 696w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-1068x598.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1-750x420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211202-Candy-Store-Draws-Inspiration-from-Fairytale-inline-1.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;Hans and Gretel&#8221; offers confectionary based on a German fairytale.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism student Poojaraj Maniyeri reports on a candy store that keeps a fairytale alive. By Poojaraj Maniyeri DUBAI \u2013 Hans and Gretel, located in Mirdif City Center, is a confectionary shop based on a German fairytale.&nbsp; Established in February 2021, the store has food items such as sweets, desserts and signature items like the chimney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,11],"tags":[17,31,45,48,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-2437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-videos","9":"category-video-reports","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-leisure","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-sharjah-uae","15":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}