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The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 07:37
by Satellite
1) Cote d'or (dark, milk, nuts and my personal favourite, Bouchee)
2) some japanese brand. Too bad it was all in Japanese so I don't know what it was and can't buy it again (was a gift)
3) good old "flake" comes in 3rd
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 09:35
by nev
I like Royce (a Japanese brand). Their cocoa-dusted squares are delish. Actually everything they make is delish. And I'm not even a chocolate person, I prefer vanilla.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 09:49
by slinky
I agree Royce is pretty tough to beat.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 11:44
by Jedi
I agree too, Royce is awesome!!
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 14:52
by Pinklepurr
Not a big fan of Royce at all, I remember when they opened their shops in HK and I was so excited as I had heard so many good things about them, but then wasn't so impressed with what they offered for the price. Very nice but not exceptional. I do like their chocolate potatochips though...yumm.
I go to a local chocolatier who makes wicked chilli chocolate.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 20:35
by baloo
Jedi wrote:I agree too, Royce is awesome!!
Royce is a bit of a dud if you ask me.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 20:53
by daffodil
Haigh's (Australia).
Laurent Bernard (Portsdown Rd, Singapore). Scrumptious , expensive handmade chocolates.
Terry's chocolate orange (UK). Bit of a naff one but a Daff family tradition - Easter, Christmas stocking etc. Has to be done
Hotel Chocolat (UK). Sigh.
I could go on.....
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 21:12
by baloo
Jaffa Cakes
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 28th Aug, '13, 23:48
by Fat Bob
Royce is great if you can get a chick to feed you it.
There again, most things are, aside from strychnine, arsenic....
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 03:30
by chocolate
baloo wrote:Jaffa Cakes
Yea!!
Cadbury's - pure and simple.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 03:52
by BoD
As much it pains me to say it. I quite like Royce
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 06:42
by Jedi
baloo wrote:Royce is a bit of a dud if you ask me.
BoD wrote:As much it pains me to say it. I quite like Royce
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 07:14
by daffodil
Royce is so-so, never thought of Jaffa cakes as cholcolate...surely they are biscuits....or cakes
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 09:59
by slinky
I like the various fudge you can get in places like Cape Cod. They have shops all over the place where they make it on site and it's full of sugary yumminess. It's a must-do a couple of times each time I spend a week there
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 02:34
by BoD
is it just enough to give your kids a treat?
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 06:33
by Satellite
wow I am surprised a number of you listed Royce! I think it is overrated - I think a cadbury flake is nicer than that. And not really a chocolate as it is the filling dusted with cocoa powder. And there are much nicer fillings than that - like cotd d'or bouchee! There is also gjanduja (sp?) but I have yet to find any brand selling that. I tasted some from a chocolatier in Spore but apparantely sporeans are not keen ont hat so he doesnt do that anymore.
Sometimes jaffa cakes substitute my daily chocolate intake!
Just had some hotel chocolat as a gift. I think cote d'or beats the dark and milk range but the white chocoate is devine. The best I've had yet!
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 19:26
by baloo
Sprungli chocolates. Nothing better. Nothing.
But you can only buy them from their only store in Zurich.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 21:09
by Queenie
For chocolate bars, it has to be Valrhona followed by Cova. Green & Blacks for daily munching.
I think you can get Sprungli from Zurich airport (or is it the train station?). I like their mini macaroons best, way better than Laduree's.
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 31st Aug, '13, 17:47
by Spike
BoD wrote:
is it just enough to give your kids a treat?
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 31st Aug, '13, 17:52
by Spike
Caramac
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 31st Aug, '13, 18:08
by baloo
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 4th Oct, '13, 20:40
by Duck
baloo wrote:
Yuk!
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 5th Oct, '13, 14:25
by daffodil
Not usually a fan of Movenpick but their Swiss Mik with cocoa splinters is going down rather well
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 11th Oct, '13, 16:08
by inyas4
I like chocolates!
Re: The best chocolates
Posted: 15th Oct, '13, 18:45
by daffodil
How about some worm chocolates? Gold dusted of course....
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