by Little Strawberry

Created on: July 22, 2008   Last Updated: August 07, 2008

Every chocolate shop in the entirety of Melbourne. City. I will visit them all. I'm going to find the best dark chocolate in existence.
So far, these are winning:

Whittaker's Dark Ghana %70 Cocoa (woah. the nicest so far. very good chocolate)
Club Chocolate (is always dark, they don't make any other type. Also: woah)
Lindt 85% Cocoa Dark Chocolate (best melted a bit. Not enough pieces in packet)

a small little dark chocolate that was given to me from a caravan at a music festival. It was melting on a shelf so the people said I could keep it :) I forget the name. Marquise? Am not sure. I remember we were all walking back to camp and I said "has anyone got a straw?" because it had melted so much, lol.

Anyway! What I'm looking for are:

Melting qualities (must melt 'right')
Bittersweet factor (a bit of tartness is really nice)
Phenylethylamine and Seratonin levels (naturally occuring in high levels in the brain, but only if you're in love... I figure why not add to my increasingly-happy feeling :)

So now I'm going the gourmet route, and doing over the chocolate shops and boutique parts in the department stores. Seriously, I will find it. And once I find it, I may eat some every day. Why not? It's nice. I've seen some with orange pieces and nuts embedded into the back of the chocolate - I know where they are, and I'm going to try them. I'll be like the poster-child for Max & Koko, lol.

This was the first day of my 'best dark chocolate in Melbourne' hunt. Where else to start but in Coles at 8:30am, with a small (okay, so it was like 6 pieces) Club Chocolate bar and a giant bottle of Nudie (brand) Mango & Passionfruit juice. So far, Club is winning. The mango juice was a craving and therefore does not count. I take a quick detour to the dreaded Centerlink (oh, for shame!), feeling a little 'pov' at this point, but upon doing the 'financial means' test, we discover that I have earnt more than the lady serving me. So I leave ("as you can imagine, ma'am, there will be no payout this week, lol"), and work out my plan of which chocolate shop to hit first. I make a vow that because I am very rich now, I will not ask about prices or even mention them once, I will just order whatever I want and pay whatever they ask for it.

First I go to the aptly-named Chocolate Box in the AOC. Lots of pre-packaged chocolate, and a small shelf of 'try-me's', but nothing that really screams 'dark' to me. I inquire about the packets, but am still not inspired. I head over to KoKo Black.

KOKO BLACK: I went

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