Aged balsamic vinegar caramel atop strawberry creme, shelled in dark chocolate anatomically-correct hearts. Contains dairy. Gluten-free and alcohol-free.

Ah, if only Chinese School had been this tasty. . . whether you call it bopomofo, zhùyīn fúhào, or ㄅㄆㄇ ㄈ, children of the Taiwanese diaspora learned these phonetic characters in order to pronounce Chinese words accurately. A fun and delicious callback to those long Sunday afternoons. . .

65% dark chocolate and rice croquante. Vegan. Contains soy.

net wt 50 g (1.8 oz)

Ring in the Year of the Snake with a box set of chocolates featuring Asian flavors!

This year's flavors include:

Hennessy & Longan: Taiwanese dried longan and cognac. contains dairy, soy, alcohol
Miso Caramel: an Asian twist on classic salted caramel. contains dairy, soy
Black Sesame Praliné: black sesame and almonds in white chocolate. contains dairy, sesame, almonds, soy
Nantou Oolong: a fragrant oolong ganache in dark chocolate. contains dairy, soy

12 bonbon box contains 3 of each flavor

Ring in the Year of the Snake with a box set of chocolates featuring Asian flavors!

This year's flavors include:
Hennessy & Longan: Taiwanese dried longan and cognac. contains dairy, soy, alcohol
Miso Caramel: an Asian twist on classic salted caramel. contains dairy, soy
Black Sesame Praliné: black sesame and almonds in white chocolate. contains dairy, sesame, almonds, soy
Nantou Oolong: a fragrant oolong ganache in dark chocolate. contains dairy, soy

24 bonbon box contains 6 of each flavor

To celebrate the new year, Sam Tilney of BANGtea and I developed this limited edition "tea chocolate bar" using on of her most popular teas, GABA oolong, sourced from Taiwan.

About the tea: The Spring 2024 GABA oolong "offers a rich, fruity broth, evoking the indulgent taste of a luscious fruit pie with a lingering, sweet aftertaste." It has been certified as meeting the minimum threshold of GABA content of 150mg/100g leaves. The GABA content for the 2024 harvest has achieved a concentration of 193mg/100g leaves. The leaves have undergone an extended 3-day anaerobic fermentation process and are finished with a 4-hour roast.

About the bar: after tasting several oolongs from BANGtea's wonderful collection, I felt the GABA tea was unlike any I had ever tasted. I tried several formulations over the fall, and we decided on this one. It is 11% tea leaves by weight, blended with cocoa butter, chocolate, and sugar, and packaged in a limited edition red envelope.

Tasting Notes: persimmon, biscotti, raisin

ingredients: dark chocolate, cocoa butter, tea, sugar, soy lecithin

net wt: 50 g (1.76 oz)

Celebrate the Year of the Snake with a 65% dark chocolate and rice croquante bar, decorated with a traditional Chinese papercut snake. Vegan. Contains soy.

It's back and available in bigger packs! Citrusy floral kalamansi pâte de fruits jelly, cheesecake ganache, and almond graham cracker crust in a dark chocolate shell. Contains dairy, gluten, tree nuts, soy. ~34 g each (1.2 oz)

When we visited Taiwan last summer, we were delighted to visit Hwa Gung Tea in Taichung. HGT is a 5th generation tea company, whose roots date back to 1918, during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. They have won multiple international awards and are well-known for their discerning selection of tea, with particular expertise in teas grown in the highest mountainous regions of Taiwan

This bar has a rich, sweet aftertaste with a unique astringency. Notes: fruity, woody, alpine flowers.

The bar itself is hand-decorated with a beautiful ocean motif, a nod to our island heritage.

50 g (1.75 oz)

Contains dairy, soy

Iyokan is one of our delightful culinary discoveries this year. It is a Japanese citrus that is wonderfully fragrant. The peels in our bars are candied with beet sugar and millet jelly, and are not too sweet. We found that this pairs beautifully with our house 70% dark chocolate, and a cup of oolong tea.

Our Earl Grey Lavender bar starts with blending our house dark milk chocolate with fragrant Earl Grey tea and a dash of bergamot oil, grinding in our melanger for a full day until it is silky smooth. This exquisite chocolate is then finished with dried culinary lavender buds for a sophisticated and luxurious treat.

We like to consider ourselves experts on gummy candies here at Formosa Chocolates, and after careful consideration of the field of gummies (the things we do for love), we found what we consider the very best gummies. 12 juicy fruit flavors, always soft, QQ, and toothsome. Each one is only made better with a layer of dark chocolate!

200 g (7.1 oz) approx 39-40 gummies

gluten-free

6 bonbons, 2 wks at room temp, or visit our site for instructions on how to freeze for up to a year

Dried Taiwanese pearl guava enrobed in 60% dark chocolate. Featuring pearl guava from our friends at Yunhai

From Yunhai:

Pearl Guava is the most perfumey and vegetal of fruits. Taste the entire universe in a single bite. This fruit has so little sugar that we need to add a touch to ensure it’s properly preserved. Delicious with a cup of oolong tea.

This product is part of a line of dried fruit that we created via crowdfunding on Kickstarter to support Taiwanese farmers that are vulnerable to trade volatility between Taiwan and China. We started this project in March of 2021, when China banned imports of Taiwan pineapples nearly overnight, wiping out 90% of Taiwan's export market and leaving farmers scrambling to find buyers. Wax Apple were banned as recently as September 2021. We work directly with farmers and farmer-owned coops to source, purchase, and package the fruit, with the intent to ease at least some of the dependency on trade with China.

Vegan, gluten-free, alcohol-free. contains SOY

10 soft candied orange peels dipped in our house dark chocolate. Vegan, gluten-free, alcohol-free.

These were such a hit last year that we decided to bring them back with their own packaging. Asian "Twix" bars are filled with miso caramel and a black sesame shortbread. Contains dairy, sesame, treenuts, gluten, soy

We stumbled upon this dried mango recently, and loved how it was less sweet than most dried mango on the market. Good mangos are already plenty sweet, and these unsulphered mangos have less sugar added to them, and we think, are the best-tasting that we have found. The rich combination of flavors make this the perfect snacking treat with a cup of afternoon tea!

We enrobe them in 65% dark chocolate, and hand-pack them in 200g (7 oz). There are 13- 22 pcs per box, depending on the size of each mango slice.

From the Formosa Chocolates Research and Development Lab, we present our second bar, Hojicha Milk 7.5%

Hojicha is a roasted green tea from Japan, which blends beautifully with cocoa butter and milk. This edition is slightly less sweet than the first iteration. The bar itself is decorated with a beautiful ocean motif, a nod to our island heritage.

50 g (1.75 oz)

Contains dairy, soy

Dark chocolate covered candied ginger. Warning: these are addictive! Vegan and gluten-free.

Tangy passionfruit chocolate on one side, dark chocolate studded with toasted cocoa nibs and pretty burgundy chocolate chips on the other. A perfect pairing!

Contains dairy and soy

~2.8 oz

Sweet and floral dried lychee slivers on dark chocolate. We finished this bar with fragrant dried rose petals and crunchy roasted cacao nibs. Suitable for vegans.

~3.2oz

12 bonbons - A delicious 12-piece box of our best sellers in a beautiful presentation box! current flavors can be found here https://www.formosachocolates.com/pages/current-menu