Paradai - Dark chocolate 70% Chanthaburi - THAILAND - 50g
The cocoa in this Paradai chocolate comes from Thailand's Chanthaburi province and is particularly distinguished by its powerful fruity notes.
At the 2022 International Chocolate Awards world final, it was voted the best dark chocolate in the world, with a fabulous score of 91.8 out of 100.
The cocoa comes exclusively from a plantation in Chanthaburi province, renowned for cocoa cultivation and now a high-quality cocoa hub in Thailand. Located in the east of the country, it has earned a name as the “garden province” thanks to its many mangrove forests and orchards.
The yellow background symbolizes the particularly fruity and exotic notes of the cocoa from this region, and the depicted plants evoke this garden province, characterized by lush mango plantations and rambutan or durian groves.
Cocoa beans (70% Thailand), cane sugar
Cocoa farmer and chocolate maker
Mama Suda, the mother of my friend and associate, has helped us since the first day of our artisanal chocolate adventure. We made our first chocolate bars from her cocoa, and without her hands, we would never have reached this level of excellence.
Mama Suda's plantation is located in Chanthaburi province, renowned far beyond Thailand for the cocoa produced there. But not all cocoas from this region are equal, and those produced here are of the highest quality, as evidenced by the numerous medals won by these exceptional chocolates.
PARADAi Phurich and Warit, two best friends, founded the PARADAi chocolate factory in 2016, after rediscovering abandoned cocoa trees in their home country, in the backyards of Nakhon Si Thammarat. PARADAi, which means “companions” or “friendship” in Thai, aims to utilize these forgotten plants and has since been purchasing very small quantities of Single Origin cocoa pods from local farmers in different regions of Thailand. PARADAi works exclusively through direct trade with selected cocoa farmers who cultivate their cocoa purely naturally. These farms are too small to afford organic certification, but they do not use chemicals or pesticides on their plantations. They also grow their cocoa in agroforestry systems with other trees and plants and do not clear forests. For all these reasons, and because they systematically avoid intermediaries, the growers receive a significantly higher price than average for their cocoa beans. After two years of preparation, PARADAi opened its first chocolate café with a small-batch chocolate factory in Bangkok's Old Town in 2018. Meanwhile, they employ about 25 people who are involved in the production and export of Thai culture through e...
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