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Uforia Chocolate from Bali

I recently found out about a company making chocolate in Bali called Uforia and just had to try some, especially as they stated that their chocolate gave people a natural high and of course means I can shop local and support Indonesian made products. Yes, I am a chocolate lover, in fact chocolate worshipper. I would cross mountains and valleys in order to seek out delicious chocolate. It might be quite possibly the most incredible food item ever created. Yes, I love it that much. I don't however, love so much what it does to my hips and stomach but we won't dwell too long on that! Even the mere thought of eating chocolate makes me feel giddy and delirious so any chocolate called Uforia and claiming to put me into a state of Euphoria simply must be tasted. It's not available through normal shops here. I had to order it online through one of my organic, health food online suppliers. I ordered four bars because the flavours sounded very enticing. There was Loca Mocha, Sea Salt, 64% Intensity and 75% Intensity. So I ordered one of each. To be honest, even though when I buy chocolate I really just want to stuff the whole lot of it in my mouth at once I try to test my self-restraint by hiding it in a drawer in the fridge and having a couple of squares when I need a pick me up. Sometimes that happens...and lots of times it doesn't. Back to Uforia chocolate, the bars are small, a little bit smaller than I was expecting for 43,000 a bar. However, packaging is very retro which I liked. The bars are well wrapped with foil paper. First up there was the sea salt. The sea salt was crusted along the bottom and there was a lot of it. The taste was very salty, perhaps a tad more than I might have liked. The chocolate itself was bitter, which is to be expected from dark chocolate but there was something else about it that struck me. It tasted dry. Although dark chocolate is less creamy tasting than its milk chocolate counterpart, it still should be moist from the cocoa butter. I tried the rest of the bars, all in the name of culinary  investigations, in the hope that the chocolate would have that moist, melt in your mouth consistency, but alas I didn't get it. I must admit I was a little disappointed and not sure I would fork out the money for more bars. I decided to use some of it up in my brownie recipe and there's still one bar left in the fridge which for a chocolate addict like me, is quite rare...