The challenge: eat seven cakes within an hour. Can we do it?
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half of the team ready for action
girls in their mean-guy pose, while ron acts girly for the cam |
We got Secret-Recipes-unlimited-cakes-and-coffee-or-tea-until-6pm coupons for only P199 (P950 value) and couldn't wait to take up the challenge. The rules were simple: strictly no sharing and eat your cake as fast as you can, since we started eating at 5:00pm.
Just look at all the cakes we had to eat!
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| five slices out of seven delivered |
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| pretty girls + cakes = love love |
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| ready for battle! |
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| writers are all smiles |
My first cake was of course, chocolate. As early as now, I have to tell you it's the best out of all I tried.
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| moist chocolate cake was not as moist as expected, but it's okay |
Wolfed the choco down in around five bites and ordered cake number two.
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| White Strawberry - light and tasted a bit medicine-y |
Cake number three was called the Golden Nugget. The middle was rich and creamy, but I didn't really like the taste.
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| no gold in this Golden Nugget |
There were still four cakes to try -- Black Forest, Mocha Walnut, Cocoa Mocha, and Almond Coffee -- but I was already too "sugarified" to take in more.
Challenge result: FAIL at 3/7 cakes consumed. Boo.
Unfortunately, we weren't too happy about the subpar service at Secret Recipes that day. We made a mistake in printing one of the coupons, but the staff wasn't too helpful in improving the situation. Yes, we knew the rules (coupons had to be printed out), but if I were the manager, I would have done something to make my customers feel better, especially since the restaurant's own database showed that we did indeed purchase the coupon. They were also very strict about refills. The waiter made sure I finished every drop of my jasmine tea (which went well with cakes, by the way) before I could have another cup.
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| No refills until I finished this |
Good thing the sugar rush with my hyper officemates more than made up for this disappointing detail.
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| girls girls girls girls :) |
Just look at all our plates and imagine how full we were!
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| I love this weird and geeky bunch of Marketing ninjas. |
Secret Recipes is open from 10 am- 10 pm and is located at 5/F Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA cor. Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. For reservations and deliveries, call 02-6370367.
