ABOUT
FEEDSCONTACT
EMAIL DIGESTCANDY RATINGSTYPE
BRAND
COUNTRY
ARCHIVES
|
April 2005Sunday, April 17, 2005
Fabulous PurchasesThis weekend I did a little shopping and will have lots to share in the coming week. First, I went back to Little Tokyo and spent about $20 on things. I have no idea what, it’ll be an adventure. I think I bought some caramels, an assortment of hard candies, one kind of pocky, something that might be like starbursts and some more chocolate. Next, I picked up a couple of other things on my travels today, one European Nestle bar at Bristol Farms and some of those new Jelly Belly chocolate candies. The hard part is waiting until I take a picture of it before I eat it. This blogging thing is harder than I thought! Saturday, April 16, 2005
Fondente NeroName: Fondente Nero The Man brought this back from Italy on his last visit. It was a stack of three of these generous bars - one was given to his parents and we kept the other two. It’s a wonderfully dense and rich chocolate, smooth but with a dry finish. It has a very good mouth feel, a good snap and then melts suddenly but there’s something oddly plastic about it. I don’t know if it’s the cocoa butter or we got a bad batch or the vanilla, but it’s just a little off, maybe tastes like its wrapping. However, this is a mass produced bar and readily available in Italy and a good value for a low end gourmet chocolate. Rating: 6 out of 10 Friday, April 15, 2005
Meiji Mild Bitter Chocolate SticksName: Meiji Chocolate “Mild Bitter” My mother and I purchased quite an assortment of chocolates and candies on our last trip to Little Tokyo. The Meiji Chocolate is similar in its packaging to the Hi-CROWN. It looks like a little box of European cigarettes. These little sticks of chocolate are narrower than the Hi-CROWN, but of equal quality. The dark chocolate rivals those that I’ve gotten from the Europeans. It is very smooth, though starts a little waxy and dense, it mellows on the tongue with a good dry finish. They’re a little pricy per ounce, but I like the packaging which allows you to only open enough for one at a time. I like the fine deluxe bars that have turned up lately, but breaking them off can be quite messy and I never seem to finish a bar quickly enough so it starts to look unappealing when I get towards the end. Rating: 8 out of 10 Thursday, April 14, 2005
Pretty Flower ChocolateName: Jasmine Green Tea Chocolate The prettiest tasting chocolate I’ve ever had. These medallions of milk chocolate are a little on the sweet size, but have a good mouth feel. There’s slight bit of graininess to it towards the end. But the taste is the real winner here. It’s milk chocolate, but has the fragrance of jasmine tea. It’s not clingy or soapy feeling, simply floral and clean. The flavor lingers, like a mint would a half hour later. It’s not really the kind of candy you’d idly snack on, it’s more of a finishing chocolate. Something that you eat at the very end of the meal. I plan to try the other flavors. Rating: 8 out of 10 Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Cocoa Pete’s Maltimus MaximusName: Maltimus Maximus I love malt. I love really good malted milk balls. I will buy Ovaltine and eat it by the spoonful. I saw this candy bar while walking around on a rainy night in New York and thought, “this is the candy bar for me!” Oh, it isn’t. It’s clever. It’s cute, but lacks the real malt punch that I desire. It’s made by Cocoa Pete’s Chocolate Bars, they guy who says that he brought us Pete’s Wicked Ale. This is a guy who should know malt! Opening the package it is a bar divided into four domes that can easily be broken off for easy consumage. Two domes equals one serving. It is a nice, if a little sweet milk chocolate with malt crunchies throughout. No matter which way I ate it (sucking on it until the chocolate melted away and left me with the malty bits) or crunching it down I never got that malty taste. This is not the malt bar for me (I’m not even sure malt bars exist), but I’m willing to give his other bars a try. They’re a little pricey. Rating: 4 out of 10 |
Meticulously photographed and documented reviews of candy from around the world. And the occasional other sweet adventures. Open your mouth, expand your mind.
|