Sri Lanka Day 52 (Colombo & Ja-Ela): Manufacturers Visit
Started the day with Mr Nalin, our Key Accounts Executive, who picked us up from the hotel. Travelled to 3 different top bakers and manufacturers and HHAHAH I fell asleep on the way to Ja-Ela. We could basically eat anything we see along the way!
First Manufacturer: Royal Bakery. He continued the business from his grandfather and father and this shop is the only outlet. Everything is done here including the baking and the selling and the manufacturing of the wooden cake base. They have artists too for the designing of the cakes. Super cool and he is a super nice guy! He has a restuarant here as well and the food smells really good. His daughters are in Boston and UK. Rich and nice man!
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The difference between standard cakes and premium cakes
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Artists at work!
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He also treated us to coconut and had a chat in his office together with an Ess Kay guy, who worked in Unilever together with our GM & RSMs & all in the past. My first coconut drink here but they say the flesh is too raw and there was nothing to eat. SIAN, I wanted to eat it.
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Look at the crowd!
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Second Manufacturer: Sumanadisi Bakers. The owner wasn't around so we basically just glanced through the place.
Look at the fruit cake well!
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Our goods being unloaded!
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Third Manufacturer: Finagle, the largest bread manufacturing company in Sri Lanka. Their machines are so advanced and the office was so so beautiful! And it is a family-owned business. Imagine the wealth! We got to use the Managing Director's toilet hahhaa. Random but ya! The hygiene level is really there also!
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Frozen parata in the making!
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Chit-chat over lunch and their bread is so good! It is hard but not the awful kind of hard.
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Back to the office and stayed back together with the rest until 6.30pm to break fast with the Muslims. We tried Muslim food which was not really to my liking actually but I really love the culture here in the company!
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Got asked whether we smoked 3x today by the Finagle GM, Mr Nalin and Mr Thanveer. I guess it is really common to smoke in Sri Lanka. After dinner, Mr Nalin dropped us back to our hotel. YAY!