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Singapore CakeTalk
By Peace | December 12, 2007
Prima Deli
Prima Deli Closed. No more cakes or buns if you want to buy them home. This is a shop which I frequent. The location is good. It is near the entrance cum exit. Usually after shopping, this is the shop I will go. Before going home, I will go in here, Prima Deli to get some buns and cakes.
BreadTalk
Now that they are closed, I had to go downstairs, Four Leaves or Bengawan Solo. Upstairs, as near as Prima Deli is BreadTalk. But I don’t like BreadTalk. I eat food, I care for more taste, not for look, nor talk. If the bread talk, I listen, I watch. I tried, and if the bread talk but the food don’t speak for itself, I don’t remember them.
Bengawan Solo
Bengawan Solo cakes is the best. But the price is not the best. Nowadays they changed their ‘recipe’. They are not as nice as before (but still nicer than the rest of the competitors. But after eating, the ‘usual’ recipe, no cut-cost recipe is better). Not only do they ‘changed’ their recipe, their sliced cakes are smaller than usual. That is understandable since GST increased. But we are paying more too, but if we pay more, are we supposed to get a more inferior quality cake? As such, I do not ‘think’ of them as often now. After a few times, I just ‘give up’. Otherwise I would be their usual customers now. My father loves their cakes too. He is a great food critics too.
Four Leaves
I went to Four Leaves, not the usual place which I frequent. Perhaps, that was my <10th times visit to Four leaves. On 9 December 2007, I bought 2 packets of donuts, a packet of cranberry bread and a packet of banana cake. I had bought cranberry bread and donuts from Four leaves before. They were nice. However, that night was my first time buying banana cake from them. They were cut in cubes and packed in a box. That was very unique, something different from the usual round shape cakes or slice cakes. The box contains eight rectangular cubes of banana cakes. Last night, I bought 2 boxes of banana cakes, a packet of cranberry bread and a donut from them again. On both occasion, I spent less than S$10. This is value money worth spending considering the price and quality I get. Last night, I also saw them selling mini- Christmas log cakes in the display cake fridge. I thought that was a wonderful idea. People who love to eat log cake. do not have to spend so much money already. I love to eat log cakes and because it is expensive, I did not buy any Christmas Log Cake last Christmas.
Earn More Money Or Earn More Customers?
If I went to Bengawan Solo, I always had to spend more than S$10. If I get my usual ‘recipe’, back to 10 years ago standard and size, I will go back, even if they cost S$2.80 for a slice of cake. I ate their cakes when I was young. My father loves their creamy coffee cakes, me too. I used to walk to NUH( National University Hospital (Lower Kent Ridge Road), one of the outlets) to buy Bengawan Solo cakes. I will not miss out from buying any cakes from there if I happened to pass by also. I would buy for my father too. But I had not bought any cakes for him recently. Perhaps I should buy him some coffee cakes the next time I visit him. Last time, one piece of Bengawan Solo cakes only cost S$1.60. Then it slowly escalated over the years. I saw the price went up gradually ($1.80, $2.00, $2.60 and now if I am not wrong S$2.80).
This is pictures of the banana cake from Four Leaves.
Big Hope: Can I Have Two Cakes and Eat It?
If only I have “JiPaBan”(one million dollar). Then I can buy lots of things. I can buy my favourite food to eat and I can buy both the world’s smallest Fujitsu Lifebook UMPC U1010 as well as the bigger Lifebook Tablet(I forget the model).
More Entrepreneurs
More cakes or pastry shops. I saw that at Causeway Point too. Polar, etc etc, those selling apple strudle and all sorts of others. I tried Polar once, but still, I won’t talk about it. I finished with my caketalk and now some birdtalk.
Singapore BirdTalk
Want to earn more money also must think of customers. Not all customers are rich. Rich people also not all are generous people. If rich people are generous, they never get rich. Be ‘niao’ (stingy), learn to save, learn to treat your customers as though you want other shops or salespeople would treat you. Eat your own food. Do not only care about earning money and neglect hygiene. Spend time to clean and maintain. Don’t cover your eyes with money. Want a better life, ask the farmer who sow the seeds. We are all the results of the farmer’s labour. People push me, I push people. Even if I am confucius, I stand there alone, I ‘kena’ pushed by people; and I will push people in front of me. We are all pushing each other. Don’t want pushing, then ask the farmer not to be so ambitious. Don’t need super fast broadband also can. Moderation can liao. Don’t need everything ‘cheong tao’ (rush to be the first; ‘tao’ = in teochew, meaning head, the first).
Topics: Food, Money, Singapore |
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