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Friday, September 6, 2019

Chocolate festivals, museums, shops, cake and online kits



Chocolate Brands You Can Buy and Try Worldwide
I have been researching chocolae for days. The famous names in chocolate have spread worldwide. I recently gave a speech about chocolate to two toastmasters clubs in Singapore. The first time I visited Eminent at Dell business, an inhouse club, whose members travel a lot.

I had looked around Valu$, the cheapest shop for chocolate in Singapore, just near Changi airport, and near Dell's office. In Valu$ I saw several of my favourite brands. I wanted to pass around some chocolate. I was worried that I would not have enough chocolate and had a secodn bar ready. However, when I passed around a bar which could be broken into small pieces, it was sufficient for under 20 people. I think one or two people did not eat sweet items. Dieting, diabetics, whatever.

Next I gave a similar talk at Braddell Heights Advanced speakers' club, whose members knew a lot about chocolate.  When I asked, "Does anybody have a favourite brand?", one woman immediately called, "Godiva!" Two of the men shouted agreement.

Singapore is a hot country. But chocolate is still popular and the European and American brands are known..

 I checked the various brands countries of origina and made a list:

BELGIUM
Godiva, Brussels, Belgium.
ENGLAND
Cadbury World, Birmingham, England, UK.
FRANCE
Contact details:
Le Salon du Chocolat
70 Rue de la Tour, 75116 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 45032126
Fax: +33 1 45034004
Contact Email:


ITALY
18-27 October 2019 Eurochocolate Festival in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. The opening weekend starts with a giant sculpture of chocolate. Entry is free for the public. Expect lots of temptations! The local chocolate is Baci, containing a nut.

SINGAPORE
I enjoyed a great chocolate brownie containing nuts with creamy chocolate topping in the Sheraton Towers hotel. It was served at the Toastmasters International club TMCS, which meets the first three Mondays of every month, except sometimes dates very due to public holidays. Arrive at 6 pm for the pre-meeting buffet, 20 SGD (Singapore dollars) a rotating menu and one of the three meetings will have cake.

If you must eat chocolate, now. Try one of the chocolate shops for a variety of cakes containing chocolate.

Singapore Chocolate Shops
Awfully Chocolate - several branches including.
At Tampines, near Changi Airport

Awfaully Chocolate. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

In Europe I immediately think of Alprose. We went there from lake-side Lugarno on a train which has a face on the front.

SWITZERLAND
AlproseSwitzerland.
Alprose Chocolate museum in Switzerland



They have a giant shop. Even if you visit at the weekend when the factory is not working, the static machines with long conveyor belts are impressive.

RUSSIA
Chocomuseum

Statue of the chocolate fairy outside the museum in Russia.

USA
I stopped at a chocolate shop in New York. It was not a museum, but so many types of chocolate, it was like a museum.
Photo from Wikipedia of the Hershey Museum, Pennsylvania.
The Hershey Story. The Museum on Chocolate Avenue.
63 West Chocolate Avenue.


CHOCOLATE TREATS
What if you can't wait for your next trip and want to order chocolate now? You can order a chocolate kit online, or organize an evening to try chocolates at a shop in London (several do this - just check the notice boards in chocolate shops or ask the staff.)
Or organize a chocolate  making party. 

China Mug Resembling Chocolate
UK chocolate egg by choc on Choc and lollipop kits from 12 pounds from yuumbles.com free delivery
Chocolate layer cake. Chocolate cakes in a mug.
USA DIY ChocolateHouse
Silicone Mini Chocolate Spoons Mould £3.99 from Lakeland.co.uk
Alphabet letters Silicone Chocolate Mould from Lakeland  £2.99
USA
Edible Bra


Kits
Hobbycraft UK posts worldwide.

Also consider

Chocolate parties.

Useful Websites
singaporeair.com
Useful Websites
umbriatourism.it
http://www.italia.it/en/home.html

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my other posts including Chocolate cake at Sheraton Towers Hotel Toastmasters International buffet. Please share links to your favourite posts.

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