Third Culture Bakery
Third Culture Bakery
Food Industry
ABOUT Us
The Third Culture Bakery founders' upbringing in a distinct cultural setting from their parents influenced the development of their bakery's hallmark goods, including the Original Mochi Muffin, butter mochi doughnuts, and other beverages and treats. The bakery brand was established in 2016 as a symbol of inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance by Chef Sam Butabutar and Wenter Shyu.
The Third Culture Bakery's Story:
After falling in love, pastry chefs Sam Butarbutar and Wenter Shyu launched their bakery in 2016. They started as the only workers, selling their unique product to six wholesale coffee shops.
The Mochi Muffin immediately developed a cult following, and a year after the bakery's debut; they were able to hire their first worker. By 2018, the company had over 60 wholesale locations and more than 20 full-time managers, retail employees, delivery drivers, and bakers.
The Motivation Behind Third Culture Bakery:
The bakery's distinctive products were inspired by the proprietors' love of the candies they ate as kids in Taiwan and Indonesia. His mother used to prepare an Indonesian speciality that served as the basis for the bakery's distinctive cuisine.
The Items on the Menu Are:
Third Culture offers a variety of drinks and treats drawn from other civilizations, including:
Mugs of Mochi:
The creation of the Third Culture was the Mochi Muffin. Chef Sam Butarbutar created the muffin in 2014 using his mother's recipe for traditional Indonesian food. He wanted to create a new product with the same sentimental value and cultural importance as the original.
The Mochi Muffin is flavoured with brown butter, caramel, and coconut and has a slightly crispy outside and a chewy interior. The Mochi Muffin is made by Third Culture Bakery only using mochiko rice flour from Koda Farms, house-blended coconut milk and pandan, and French-style butter. Japanese sesame seeds in black and white give the muffin its distinctive look.
Doughnuts in butter mochi:
To achieve the lightness of fried dough and the rich chewiness of butter mochi, the Third Star Bakery's butter mochi doughnuts are baked, not fried. The butter mochi doughnut is produced with local dairy milk and the same mochiko rice flour and French-style butter used in the Mochi Muffin.
Third Culture's glazes use freshly picked fruits or other carefully sourced ingredients. For instance, Japanese black sesame seeds are stone-ground into a smooth paste and used to make the bakery's renowned black sesame doughnut glaze.
Matcha:
Green tea is pulverized into a powder called matcha. The Uji sencha green tea leaves from Kyoto, Japan's first and second harvests, are used to make the matcha sold by Third Culture.
Third Culture uses matcha, which is more than 130 times more antioxidant-rich than regular green tea or goji berries. It offers a feeling of calmness and tranquillity in addition to a small dose of caffeine. Matcha from Third Culture is offered as a sparkling matcha fruit infusion or a latte, which are hand-whisked for the best flavour and enjoyment.
Brownie Mochi:
Mochiko rice flour, French-style butter, and chocolate powder from Bay Area chocolatier TCHO are used by Third Culture Bakery to make its mochi brownies. These brownies have a chewier texture than standard brownies and are enhanced with chocolate chips.
Returning to the Community:
Third Culture is a homosexual Asian-owned company that focuses on more than simply food. The company's founders, Wenter and Sam, have put forth much effort to produce top-notch pastries and spread a culture of love. They aim to show that inclusiveness can be delicious and advantageous for everybody by spreading this love outside the walls of their businesses to all forms of disenfranchised groups.
Their decisions in business and the creation of new recipes are all still driven by love. Every customer is invited to join the family they have chosen and created, represented by the bakery.
The Berkeley Humane Society, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, SF LGBT Center, The Trevor Project, and 1951 Coffee Company, a non-profit that employs and trains refugees and asylum seekers while educating the community and fostering understanding, are just a few of the organizations to which Culture Bakery annually donates a portion of its assets. The bakery sent thousands of dollars to a Bay Area emergency aid fund for LGBTQ and BIPOC people during the epidemic's peak months.
To stop a surge of prejudice and violence towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Third Culture Bakery further created and distributed safety kits. These kits include key fobs that can be heard and pepper spray. Around 5,200 requests for these kits were received by Wenter and Sam, who has already given away over 22,000 of them.
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