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Give your Valentine pearl…chocolate!?

If love were measured in outlandishness, then Japanese Valentine's Day gifts would be the standard against which all measurements are made. From ramen to true love tuna, each year Japan manages to craft new ways for people to express their love. This year, the definition of decadence is being tested by a special chocolate laced with powdered pearl and sake.

Pearl Powder Chocolate Bar

Japan’s first bean to bar artisanal chocolate store, green bean to bar CHOCOLATE is selling their handcrafted pearl powder chocolate for the Valentine's period only. The milk chocolate tablet is made from Peruvian Pablo Blanco cocoa beans and contains powdered pearl. The chocolate has a soft earl gray flavor like milk tea, which is created by roasting the cocoa beans at low temperature according to green bean to bar.

To add such a rare ingredient as pearl powder, green bean to bar are partnering with 意一堂 (eng: Essentia) a Taiwanese company that specializes in Chinese Medicine. The company uses powdered pearl in some of its medicinal products and manufactures the raw materials itself. Even within Chinese medicine pearl powder is rarely used, however, and was favored by the Chinese royal court in ancient times, making the pearl chocolate an exotic and rare Valentine's Day treat indeed.

Product Details

  • SEASONAL LIMITED Pearl Chocolate Bar
  • Price: ¥ 1,944 (tax included)
  • Sales period: January 15th to March 15th

Sake Bonbons

For those with less bourgeois tastes, green bean to bar are also offering an exciting selection of Valentine's Day bonbon boxes which include Japanese sake flavored chocolates. Each chocolate’s praline filling and beautiful chocolate coating is handcrafted by the artisan store. The flavors are distinctly Japanese, including sesame, honey ginger, goji berry and of course sake. If you want to surprise your loved one with a novel, “Japanese” expression of affection, these bonbons are tres bon!

Product Details

  • SEASONAL LIMITED -VALENTINE- BONBON CHOCOLAT BOX
  • Price (4 pieces): ¥ 2,160 (tax included)
  • Flavors: MILK, SAKE, HONEY GINGER, GOMA
  • Price: (8 pieces) ¥ 4,320 (tax included)
  • green tea, KUKONOMI, MILK, NATIVO, ALMOND, GOMA, SAKE, HONEY GINGER
  • Sales period: January 15th to February 15th

To purchase yours, see their online store here.


By - Toby M.

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