GuyLian Belgian Chocolates – La Perlina Dark Truffles
184 days agoTime for some “high classed” chocolates. And I bought this from Shop N Save if you would believe it. So this means that the chocolate is not really high class right, since I bought them from a relatively common supermarket. But at least it taste wonderful to me. GuyLian (not to be confused with Ah Lian aka female gangster wannabes) is a famous chocolate manufacturer in Belgian. They made some of the more delicious (but affordable) chocolates and they have been available in Singapore for some time. I remembered my first time having a GuyLian chocolate was those seashell chocolates – again they were wonderful.
Anyway, I bought this for about S$3.50. 4 small pieces of chocolates. Yes, luxury for poor folks like me. I don’t think Shop N Save usually carries them but since Christmas is coming, they are starting to stock up on chocolates. And honestly S$3.50 is not really expensive, it is just that I am poor.
The name is La Perlina Dark Truffles. Dark as in dark chocolate. No, I doubt there are any real truffles in the chocolate. And oh, wow, 74% cocoa solids, not too shabby. But note that the majority of the chocolate are the “truffles”. Only the surface of the chocolate is made from the 74% cocoa solid chocolate. I really like the milk truffle filings, very nice. I believe they have a milk chocolate version, which I doubt will be as good as this dark chocolate version.
I can’t read the wordings and I have thrown away the box. Should not be anything important.
The back of the pack. They say that you should store the chocolate at 18 degrees celcius. I am surprised that there are a lot of people who still keep their chocolates in the fridge. I find hard chocolates that really that nice to eat and I have never kept my chocolates in the fridge. Just a cool place in the cupboard would be enough.
The ingredients are cocoa mass, vegetable fat, sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural vanilla flavouring. Contains 74% of cocoa solids. Yes, I love dark chocolates. If you have only eaten milk chocolates, you should really try dark chocolates – the difference is the extra complexity which you will never find in milk chocolates.
Made in Belgium. 33g of chocolates. Only 4 pieces. I am so sad.
See, 4 pieces of chocolate. Hey, one of the chocolate truffles looks dented. Maybe they give me a little less truffle in that one.
I took a bite and I was in heaven. My nails looks fine right? Somehow I can’t stop myself from biting my own nails. Bad habit which I have been trying to get rid of since I was like 10 years old but still persists. Anyway we should stop talking about disgusting habits and talk about the taste of this chocolate. I have to say, it is lovely. The interior filing complements well the dark chocolate shell. Not too sweet – the way I like it. And as I said, don’t put the chocolates in the fridge! The smooth silky texture of the filings will be destroyed. And once you put the chocolate in the fridge, and if you bring it out to room temperature, it is going to melt for sure.
Alas, poor people like me we will need to consider twice before buying such chocolates. Not because it is not nice, but because we don’t have the dough. By the way, I ate the whole lot in one sitting. Ciao.
