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Sam Butarbutar

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🇮🇩🏳️‍🌈 - baker, tea nerd, weightlifter
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Hi! Your bakery dads here❤️

Just want to pop on your feed and say how much it means to us and our whole team that you come to visit us each and every time. Our beautiful team shows up day in and day out to make little muffins and donuts and matcha possible for you to enjoy and it’s HARD work and dedication!

Can you help us give a little thanks to your barista and cashiers at the shops and maybe even some of the bakers you see in Berkeley when you stop in?
A friendly smile, a fist bump, handshake, a wink, or even maybe a tip - it all brightens their day and we’re sure it’ll brighten yours too! And before you know it, the world just got a little smaller with one more familiar face to come back to❤️

With gratitude and so much mochiko rice flour,
Sam & Wenter

📷 @visitberkeley

#smallbusiness
#smallbizowner
#shoplocal
#bts taken in Third Culture Bakery by @biencuitpapi

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19 days ago

First national championship in the books! 💪 what an absolutely fun, nerve wracking, adrenaline-filled experience. Training has been so spotty going into this meet, I almost cancelled competing. So, I’m so happy that I stuck it through and I gave it my best shot. Ended scoring a +3 snatch competition PR and a +6kg competition total PR 🙏

A huge shoutout to @coach_rob_ronan from @austinbarbell & @ellehatamiya for helping me coach at the last minute. I’m so, so grateful for you two. Thank you for all of your incredible help 🙏 couldn’t have done it without you!

Thanks to my hubs for supporting my time consuming sport 😅 and always pushing me to compete @wentsworld. For @whitemagnoliahealth @verduresportsmassage @kcsjay @inlinedc @darrenjmain for fixing my body when it breaks tf down.

And to all my training peeps at @spsgym y’all keep pushing me day in and day out. I’m so grateful for this community @corinn_weslyn @brandon_chien @_____leah_p @jduong4 @raymondl26 @jordanpaigehendricks @kylito_____#
@theryks808

Snatch:
88 kg (194 lb) ✅
92 kg (203 lb) comp pr!) ✅
96 kg (211.5 lb) ❌

Clean and Jerk:
110 kg (242 lb) ❌
113 kg (249 lb) ✅
115 kg (253 lb) ❌

Total: 205kg (+6 comp PR)
See y’all at AO finals 🫡 taken in Salt Palace Convention Center by @biencuitpapi

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6 months ago

Randomly PR’d my snatch on a day I had zero expectations for training! I walked in thinking I’d get a quick hour workout in… then realized my body felt good and my mind was relaxed but focused. So we just kept climbing.

91, 92, and a few attempts at 93 kg (200, 203, 205 lb)

I guess all it took was the hype from my @grassrootscrossfit crew 🥺❤️ @charlelifts @lindsayponi @viniciuspontesl thanks guyssss, it was such a fun lifting day.

And huge a thank you to John @whitemagnoliahealth — your incredible sports acupuncture treatments literally fix my beaten-up body every single time 🫶🏽 taken in Grassroots CrossFit by @biencuitpapi

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a year ago

Hey Mochi fam, Sam here!

it’s crazy to think that when I first started making mochi muffins in my Home kitchen back in 2014, I was just making a dozen or two at a time while I had a full-time job and doing pop-ups on the weekends. That feels like another life now when I think about it.

I feel so lucky that I get to walk into a kitchen with people who are just as dedicated and passionate about baking as I was all those years ago - like Lucia here who has been with us since 2019.

Lucia is now overseeing and helping me manage the thousands of donuts and muffins that we bake and send out into the world each day. If you see Lucia at our Berkeley showroom and kitchen, please say hello and show her some love!

Because all these donuts and muffins that you enjoy either from our shops or your local coffee shop, were lovingly made possible by Lucia and her team of extraordinary bakers who are also mothers, Sisters, Strong inspiring human beings.

And in addition to our amazing pastries, I’m beyond proud that we get to serve another immigrant justice, supporting organization with amazing espresso - @1951coffee thank you Doug and Team for making our espresso dreams come true to pair with our beautiful mochis.

Love,
Sam

#smallbusiness #bts #bakerylife #thirdculturebakery taken in Third Culture Bakery by @biencuitpapi

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a day ago

Hello mochi fam! Your bakery dads here.

About a month ago, we quietly introduced our first Koicha matcha (濃茶: meaning thick tea) onto our permanent menu in Berkeley and we really didn’t know how it was going to be received. Were people ready? Would they understand the specialness of this thick matcha? Would people be into it?

Safe to say, after selling over 200 beautiful cups of the thick matcha, people were into it.

And tomorrow we embark on our journey to Kyoto to host our first ever matcha retreat - where we are taking a group of 10 people through a curated learning experience and seeing behind the scenes of where our Matcha comes from. Including seeing the behind-the-scenes making of this specialty thick Koicha matcha.

We are so thankful for all the support, and for so many people loving on our matcha that we painstakingly source and maintain its quality through careful and very thoughtful relationship, relationships with farmers, producers, and many other vendors that make it possible. And to are Japanese team member that’s on the ground making all the logistics possible, Narumi san, we thank you🫶

Follow along in our stories as we show you our side of Kyoto and beyond for the next few weeks.

Always,
Sam & Wenter

#matcha #smallbusiness taken in Third Culture Bakery by @biencuitpapi

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4 days ago

Let’s make a stone fruit mochi waffle together for National Waffle Week! 🥸

This is my love letter for some of my favorite things about the Bay Area - incredible summer fruit 🍑 and delicious dairy 🐮

Mochi waffle made with @robin_kodafarms @kodafarms mochi rice of course, Tahitian vanilla beans, mascarpone @clover.sonoma whipped cream, flavor king plums and peach compote, crumbles, and slices of fresh @froghollowfarm stone fruit.

Last day to get them is tomorrow Monday @our Berkeley store! Get them before your fav waffle maker goes into hibernation 💤 taken in Third Culture Bakery by @biencuitpapi

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2 months ago

July was for white sand, blue waters, rambutans, and spicy sambals. So grateful for a month with friends and loved ones and reconnecting with my Austanesian roots 🇮🇩🇹🇼🇵🇫 by @biencuitpapi

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2 months ago

Late post - but at happy 9th birthday to this small but mighty bakery of ours. How lucky that I get to be a part of this. Thank you for all your support. I’m so grateful ❤️ by @biencuitpapi

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4 months ago

After a restful weekend, I had a nice unexpected snatch double PR yesterday at 88kg/194lb (my opening weight at nationals!!) 💪 a good reminder that rest is part of training.

It also feels good to have a first PR in our new small weightlifting den 😛. Thank you @internet_weightlifting_coach for the lovely vintage Eleiko bar. That bar is a dream 🔥 by @biencuitpapi

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5 months ago

Goodbye for now @spsgym . I’m so grateful for this incredible community. I grew so much as a weightlifter here — not only in hitting so many PRs on these exact platforms, but also in trusting in myself along the way. Thank you for all the hype and laughs we had together 🫶🏽 till we train again soon. taken in Speed Power Strength: An Eleiko Certified Facility by @biencuitpapi

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5 months ago

Chef Sam’s @biencuitpapi personal recipe for pure passion fruit, life back in Indonesia. Paired perfectly with elegant first harvest matcha.

For a limited time only.

#matcha #cafe #cafelife taken in Third Culture Bakery by @biencuitpapi

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