“When each batch of bread takes two days to make and each pastry takes three, even the most basic things become precious. Baking has taught me to be present, patient, and intuitive.”
“It’s a way of making a living for me, but having done this for so long, you tend to develop feelings for the craft. I don’t think so much about the future; I just try to take each day as it comes, but I’ll keep on doing this for as long as I can.”
Yeye's affable, happy-go-lucky attitude belies an entrepreneurial, innovative spirit—one that has helped him raise a family of eight children by sheer determination.
“After a week at the stall I wondered: how did my mother single-handedly manage the whole shop? That was actually the main reason why I came on board—I want to take over the whole business and let her retire.”