While Revianne is trying to set an appointment with her trust-worthy cake suppliers for the cake tasting, one of the suppliers I knew from Girltalk brides' referrals confirmed that he can make our cake exactly as I draw it and in a cheaper price, so to our excitement and "This is it" feeling, Revianne set a meeting with him in Gateway, Cubao.
Steve and I we're also with my sister and brother-in-law who knows baking & love cakes. Though the meeting is at 3pm, we all decided to go there earlier due since we're quite far and my brother-in-law's car is coding. Good thing that we went there ahead of time as the place is packed due to UAAP (Lasalle-Ateneo Juniors) game and raining hard as well so many people we're stocked in the traffic including Revianne who wasn't able to join us and the cake supplier who was 30-45 minutes late.
When he arrived, we started the discussion. He is a nice bloke. He can also communicate with us well but when I mentioned about the TV series I am watching, he didn't say something about it so maybe he is not familiar. Well, it doesn't matter anyway... To be honest, his rate is cheaper compared to some suppliers we were talking with based on the design and details. He showed us some photos of his work and confirmed that he can make it so the deciding point will be the taste.
He brought out his 3 cake flavors; chocolate ganache, banana walnut and red velvet. We all tasted the cake samples and we all agreed that it is not worth the long wait. Banana walnut icing is just ordinary, Chocolate ganache is too heavy and sweet, and the red velvet has really strong sour taste of the apple cider. To top it up, the cake itself was all dry... it's like it's been his stock for ages. Steve straight to the point told him "I don't like this, too dry, I don't like this too sweet and this as well, too sour do you have any other cake flavors to offer?" He said he only has those 3 flavors for the cake but willing to adjust the flavors according to our taste but we all 4 decided that he is not the right supplier for us...
The meeting only lasted for like 20 minutes. We called Revianne to inform her about what happened and to ask for another appointment with another supplier since we both want to finalize all the suppliers before we go back to UAE. Hope next one will be the last!
Steve and I we're also with my sister and brother-in-law who knows baking & love cakes. Though the meeting is at 3pm, we all decided to go there earlier due since we're quite far and my brother-in-law's car is coding. Good thing that we went there ahead of time as the place is packed due to UAAP (Lasalle-Ateneo Juniors) game and raining hard as well so many people we're stocked in the traffic including Revianne who wasn't able to join us and the cake supplier who was 30-45 minutes late.
When he arrived, we started the discussion. He is a nice bloke. He can also communicate with us well but when I mentioned about the TV series I am watching, he didn't say something about it so maybe he is not familiar. Well, it doesn't matter anyway... To be honest, his rate is cheaper compared to some suppliers we were talking with based on the design and details. He showed us some photos of his work and confirmed that he can make it so the deciding point will be the taste.
He brought out his 3 cake flavors; chocolate ganache, banana walnut and red velvet. We all tasted the cake samples and we all agreed that it is not worth the long wait. Banana walnut icing is just ordinary, Chocolate ganache is too heavy and sweet, and the red velvet has really strong sour taste of the apple cider. To top it up, the cake itself was all dry... it's like it's been his stock for ages. Steve straight to the point told him "I don't like this, too dry, I don't like this too sweet and this as well, too sour do you have any other cake flavors to offer?" He said he only has those 3 flavors for the cake but willing to adjust the flavors according to our taste but we all 4 decided that he is not the right supplier for us...
The meeting only lasted for like 20 minutes. We called Revianne to inform her about what happened and to ask for another appointment with another supplier since we both want to finalize all the suppliers before we go back to UAE. Hope next one will be the last!
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