duty free IGI delhi, any Chocolates?

puchoo · Mar 21st, 2009, 20:43

cant remember the name of the one in VV....maybe hot breads but not sure at all... have been there though...pretty nice.

Nick-H · Mar 21st, 2009, 21:13

I remember Lindt chocolate in Khan market too. You can get it in Nuts'n'spices in Chennai, and probably other specialist imports shops too --- at a price.

What really annoys me is that my favourite, the dark-chocolate orange bar, used to turn up in 99p shops in London. I'd stock up whenever it did, buying ten or twelve bars at a time --- to see me through to the end of the day, you understand!

Here it costs a fortune, and I dare not take a bite even, or I'll be broke by the end of the week.

Chocolate made for sale in India, with the higher melting point, has improved. It used to have a sort-of chalky flavour. Still not as good as cooler climes, though.

Hershey's milk chocolate... what is that stuff?

Toblerone... I bought 7.5 kilos of of Big Toblerone on my last trip. I'm getting through it too fast

I had a daydream about growing my own cocoa and vanilla in Kerala, and making my own chocolate. Certainly can be done, but both are quite an ordeal. I realised that a certain amount of sticky-mess work might be involved with the chocolate, but I naively thought one just had to grow the vanilla. Errr... no. Turns out there are reasons why it is expensive!

Haylo · Mar 21st, 2009, 21:31

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Originally Posted by karuna

What's that other chain? Haylo and I went there in Vasant Vihar D Block, there are a couple of other outlets too. Does bread and chocolates and pastries.

Yes, sweet temptations. They do great bread, and their savouries are okay, but the sweet stuff is nowhere near as nice as it looks. Do you remember the time I picked up some mini chocolate eclairs from there? Somehow we forgot to eat them (how DID that happen?

), I tried one after you'd left and that yummy looking chocolate topping tasted of absoulutely nothing...

In fact I have just realised that life owes me a good chocolate eclair, I might go and buy one this afternoon!

Aishah · Mar 21st, 2009, 23:18

Chocolat, Khan Market, also has yummy home made chocolates - all this talk of Khan Market suddenly reminded me! And if I remember rightly there were good rich dark chocolate ones too.
Thanks for clarification re that ad, Haylo - it's been on quite often lately and I've always liked the look of that village - something to do with the green lawns I think (yes, hot here, but amazingly tonight we have had a cool change and some rain, finally - dust storms previous to this).
Sorry folks, not much to do with IGI airport and duty free chocs. I suppose the thing is, if you want to wait till you get here, check them out there and failing to find them, go to Khan Market.

stephan · Mar 21st, 2009, 23:47

OK so I'll be packing my bag with as much "dark" (it 70-95% for me) as possible that wont melt. For later I'll also bring some raw cocoa nibs for a quick fix. Thinking of dark chocolate right now I think I'll skip breakfast and have some instead... Yummy!

Haylo · Mar 22nd, 2009, 01:11

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Originally Posted by stephan

OK so I'll be packing my bag with as much "dark" (it 70-95% for me) as possible that wont melt. For later I'll also bring some raw cocoa nibs for a quick fix. Thinking of dark chocolate right now I think I'll skip breakfast and have some instead... Yummy!

Ah, you are clearly a connoisseur of the dark brown stuff!

Unlikely unless you're routing through London, or if there's a good international speciality shop near you, but if you do ever have the opportunity to buy some Bendicks Bittermints, do your taste buds a favour they won't forget in a hurry... Strong mint fondant covered with a wonderful 95% bitter chocolate, an absolute taste explosion! *drool*

Nick-H · Mar 22nd, 2009, 01:54

Damn, you've spoilt my entire day!

I used to be able to get through a whole box of these white chocolate mints.

Then there's Lindt Lindor --- the chocolates with the creamy chocolate centres

.

Oh god, why did I emigrate?

(well, one reason was I couldn't afford those damn chocs any longer anyway!!!)

jaws · Mar 22nd, 2009, 02:16

Stephan
Try indian cadbury and amul chocolate and indian cakes.There is some good cake shops , something different.
In india if you leave your bags with sweets you might get some ants problems specially if you travelling.

Haylo · Mar 22nd, 2009, 02:43

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

I used to be able to get through a whole box of these white chocolate mints.

We obviously share the same tastes, I'm not usually a lover of white chocolate, but those are my other not-so-secret vice. On the rare occasions I buy nice things like that (rare because otherwise I'd be the size of a house) they do not survive long at all...

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Originally Posted by jaws

In india if you leave your bags with sweets you might get some ants problems specially if you travelling.

I agree, once you open a packet of something it is very important to scoff the lot straight away. Yup. Ants. My excuse, and I'm sticking to it!

karuna · Mar 22nd, 2009, 04:26

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Unlikely unless you're routing through London, or if there's a good international speciality shop near you, but if you do ever have the opportunity to buy some Bendicks Bittermints

Bendydicks, as they are known in our (very grown-up) house, are the bestest. The bittermints, but also the chocolate gingers. I am one of those strange people who likes coffee creams too. The best things in the world?

Ferrero Pocket Coffees.

Only available by import in the UK, available from snack machines in Europe.

I pretend it's the art and culture, but these are the real reason I go back to Italy again and again. They are probably also the reason I can't sleep when I'm there. Dark chocolate (Wiki reckons it's milk but "semi-sweet", whatever that means?) with a liquid sweet espresso filling. Ohhh yesss.

wonderwomanusa · Mar 22nd, 2009, 10:13

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Originally Posted by Haylo

Some, but not a lot, even that's only got 39% cocoa solids, which is only just over the 35% legal minimum for a product calling itself dark chocolate in the UK, and I'd say that is the absolute bare minimum for dark chocolate.

Well, it was much better than a lot of other chocolate I tried while there last year!

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Then again Stephan is American and according to my American friends the most popular "chocolate" there is Hershey's milk chocolate. I realise I'm insulting an institution, but I once tried some which they had brought over, and I was really shocked at how utterly "unchocolatey" it was. I checked and found that it has only around 10% cocoa solids! That is half the amount that a product needs if it was to be legally described as chocolate in the UK, so compared to that anything is going to seem pretty good.

Most Hersehy's varieties are milk chocolate, which don't have nearly as much cocoa in it. I don't like the flavor of their dark chocolate, and thank Heaven, we have really good chocolate here!

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Bournville, by the way, is the name of the village, then four miles out of Birmingham, which George Cadbury the Quaker created in the 1870s to provide pleasant and healthy housing and living space for the workers at his new factory there.

Yeah, my Aussie flatmates told me about that when I lived in Muswell Hill. We didn't have all that much in common, but chocolate was a very safe subject!

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Not that I like chocolate or anything...

Wouldn't trust you if you didn't...

jyotirmoy · Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:02

There is this local shopping complex opposite Shiv Mandir in C.R. Park, New Delhi. You will find a chocolate boutique there selling wonderful homemade chocolates made from chocolate base imported from Belgium & Switzerland. Their hampers are great gifts for all occasions.

Nick-H · Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:49

I'm not a choco-snob, as you might guess from my toblerone addiction. I like Cadbury's milk chocolate (especially fruit and nut) in its own right, regardless of its cocoa percentage!

It's like tinned peaches: I love tinned peaches, even though I don't recognise much resemblance to the fresh fruit.

But I also love dark, bitter chocolate too. Hmmmmm.

We have a few shops here that sell chocolate made in the Nilgiris; it is better than the higher-melting-point-version of Cadbury's, etc --- but still not brilliant. I'm glad I don't know any shops like the ones described in Delhi: there are more than enough threats to my economic survival as it is!

jyotirmoy · Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:55

I agree with you brother Nick, my chocolate fetish has lightened my purse considerably.
Btw I remember having seen Toblerone and Lindt stuff sold at Nilgiri's departmental store in Chennai.

stephan · Mar 22nd, 2009, 13:01

homemade chocolate....Yummy

Mar 21st, 2009, 20:43	#16
puchoo Maha Guru Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Delhi & Himachal Pradesh (Shimla) Posts: 5,411	cant remember the name of the one in VV....maybe hot breads but not sure at all... have been there though...pretty nice. __________________ Cheers! Indiamike Mod team............ puchoo.wordpress.com

Mar 21st, 2009, 23:18	#19
Aishah She-who-must-be-obeyed! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jaisalmer Posts: 7,624	Chocolat, Khan Market, also has yummy home made chocolates - all this talk of Khan Market suddenly reminded me! And if I remember rightly there were good rich dark chocolate ones too. Thanks for clarification re that ad, Haylo - it's been on quite often lately and I've always liked the look of that village - something to do with the green lawns I think (yes, hot here, but amazingly tonight we have had a cool change and some rain, finally - dust storms previous to this). Sorry folks, not much to do with IGI airport and duty free chocs. I suppose the thing is, if you want to wait till you get here, check them out there and failing to find them, go to Khan Market. __________________ "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

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Mar 21st, 2009, 21:13	#17
Nick-H This is just a cameo appearance Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India Posts: 36,205	I remember Lindt chocolate in Khan market too. You can get it in Nuts'n'spices in Chennai, and probably other specialist imports shops too --- at a price. What really annoys me is that my favourite, the dark-chocolate orange bar, used to turn up in 99p shops in London. I'd stock up whenever it did, buying ten or twelve bars at a time --- to see me through to the end of the day, you understand! Here it costs a fortune, and I dare not take a bite even, or I'll be broke by the end of the week. Chocolate made for sale in India, with the higher melting point, has improved. It used to have a sort-of chalky flavour. Still not as good as cooler climes, though. Hershey's milk chocolate... what is that stuff? Toblerone... I bought 7.5 kilos of of Big Toblerone on my last trip. I'm getting through it too fast I had a daydream about growing my own cocoa and vanilla in Kerala, and making my own chocolate. Certainly can be done, but both are quite an ordeal. I realised that a certain amount of sticky-mess work might be involved with the chocolate, but I naively thought one just had to grow the vanilla. Errr... no. Turns out there are reasons why it is expensive!

Mar 21st, 2009, 23:47	#20
stephan ...Nicole..&..Stephan... Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: california Posts: 42	OK so I'll be packing my bag with as much "dark" (it 70-95% for me) as possible that wont melt. For later I'll also bring some raw cocoa nibs for a quick fix. Thinking of dark chocolate right now I think I'll skip breakfast and have some instead... Yummy!

Mar 22nd, 2009, 01:54	#22
Nick-H This is just a cameo appearance Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India Posts: 36,205	Damn, you've spoilt my entire day! I used to be able to get through a whole box of these white chocolate mints. Then there's Lindt Lindor --- the chocolates with the creamy chocolate centres . Oh god, why did I emigrate? (well, one reason was I couldn't afford those damn chocs any longer anyway!!!)

Mar 22nd, 2009, 02:16	#23
jaws Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: LONDON Posts: 297	Stephan Try indian cadbury and amul chocolate and indian cakes.There is some good cake shops , something different. In india if you leave your bags with sweets you might get some ants problems specially if you travelling.

Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:02	#27
jyotirmoy Maha Guru Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 5,223	There is this local shopping complex opposite Shiv Mandir in C.R. Park, New Delhi. You will find a chocolate boutique there selling wonderful homemade chocolates made from chocolate base imported from Belgium & Switzerland. Their hampers are great gifts for all occasions.

Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:49	#28
Nick-H This is just a cameo appearance Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India Posts: 36,205	I'm not a choco-snob, as you might guess from my toblerone addiction. I like Cadbury's milk chocolate (especially fruit and nut) in its own right, regardless of its cocoa percentage! It's like tinned peaches: I love tinned peaches, even though I don't recognise much resemblance to the fresh fruit. But I also love dark, bitter chocolate too. Hmmmmm. We have a few shops here that sell chocolate made in the Nilgiris; it is better than the higher-melting-point-version of Cadbury's, etc --- but still not brilliant. I'm glad I don't know any shops like the ones described in Delhi: there are more than enough threats to my economic survival as it is!

Mar 22nd, 2009, 12:55	#29
jyotirmoy Maha Guru Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 5,223	I agree with you brother Nick, my chocolate fetish has lightened my purse considerably. Btw I remember having seen Toblerone and Lindt stuff sold at Nilgiri's departmental store in Chennai.

Mar 22nd, 2009, 13:01	#30
stephan ...Nicole..&..Stephan... Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: california Posts: 42	homemade chocolate....Yummy