Chocolates Delight

I was reading the newspaper, when I saw.. some of the most creative objects or food items made with chocolates. ohhh.. drooling at the photos.



Chocolate is also known as the Food of Gods as it has always been considered a heavenly delight. Everyone knows the goodness of chocolate: It's stimulating and has a positive influence on the cardio-vascular system. Some say that it has an aphrodisiac effect (hmm :)): it triggers feelings of happiness and desire...
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Well this is the story of how 'chocolate' inspires 3 persons decided to trade their current professions for the love of chocolate.


Chng, an engineer and a father of three, quits his job because he found that metal is not pliable enough for creating elegant designs. Then he found chocolate.. and the love story continues. Chng has even made an 1.8m long dragon and a chocolate tiger mascot which needed 10 men to move it!



Chng also has discovered his talent in crafting delicate chocolate couverture rose bouquet (A 0.152m diameter rose bouquet can cost no less than RM 600!). Romantic chocolate notion.. His one man dream has now became a little enterprise of 6 persons. Chng sometimes spend 16 hours on his feet experimenting on his ideas.



Chin Siew Hua, 55 years old former banker, met with friends at a reunion where they decided to go with the idea of making chocolate slabs embossed with text messages and photograpic images. Six months later, her entire life savings were gone and her partners run away. Luckily her eldest son came to help her, giving his special help in accounting and taking care of the finance side.. and saved the shop. The best thing is that they became much closer and 'stick' to each other since then.. :p



Lastly, there is Koay, who previously worked as a jewellery and fashion designer, she fell in love with chocolate designing when she went visiting her sister in law in Los Angeles. There she discovered novelty chocolates in a cafe which serves colored chocolates on it's menu.



All in all, the 3 of them agreed that it needed patience and hard work working with chocolates. For example, chocolates cannot be taken out directly from the chiller and exposed to the room temperature because it will make white spots or 'milk bloom' comes out on the chocolate and mar it's appearance.





Nevertheless, while these chocolates are commercialized and made for big occasions like weddings and door gifts..it's still able to sweeten a broken heart and as a tantalizing/poetic/romantic gesture in a love affair. Chocolates.. known to uplift the spirit and send a smile to the lips as the sweet and bitter taste melt on the tongue..



And of course,do remember, everything good should be taken in moderation..even love:)