January 31, 2012

For Valentines

Wow. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a shop update on the blog. We had a wonderful Christmas season, and after a short break, we’ve replenished our stock and are just about to release the Valentine’s lineup. Becca’s been working hard in the kitchen the past couple weeks to get everything ready, so we thought [...]

January 23, 2012

Marou Chocolate, bean to bar in Ho Chi Minh City

(After visiting Hoi An and Nha Trang, we headed back to Saigon for our final first true cacao encounter in Asia) Back in October we were contacted by Samuel Maruta, a chocolate maker in Vietnam, who had seen our blog. He had invited us to visit his operation in Saigon. Over e-mail we were able [...]

January 16, 2012

Chocolate in Hoi An

It’s been a while since I’ve had chocolate and the bar of Beschle 64% with pistachios and salt that I purchased in Singapore was polished off weeks ago. I am in Hoi An, a picturesque but touristy town in central Vietnam which for hundreds of years served as a major port to Portuguese, Japanese and [...]

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