Mexico is famous for chocolate/cacao, so I visited two chocolate shops. Both are located quite close to each other, around 10-15 minutes walk from my hotel.
One was a chocolate museum. I didn't visit the museum, but went into the shop. There were so many kinds of chocolate for sale...though most of them seemed to be just shaped differently.
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| a little special, because they are chocolate mice! |
And this one is very special: chocolate with grasshoppers. When I first translated it in the shop using Google Lens, I thought that it was a translation error. So I snapped a photo to do more research later. Now that I've done my research, it seems that chocolate with grasshoppers is really a thing in Mexico...
The other chocolate shop I visited was La Rifa.
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| on the left is the counter, and on the right is a selection of chocolate bars with different flavours |
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| the menu |
We could order drinks with different levels of cacao. I ordered a small one with milk. I made a mistake and asked for semi-amargo (semi-bitter, 50% cacao) at first, and then said amargo (bitter, 70% cacao), but I think they didn't hear the update, and made (and charged) me a semi-amargo. I went for the basic kind, skipping the flavours of chilli, honey, or cardamom. If I had stayed longer, I might have gone back to try the honey flavour.
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| my hot chocolate (on the table are the chocolate bars that I bought to take home) |
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| I bought a piece of chocolate with macadamia, which was among a few kinds of chocolate displayed at the counter...but it's not what I like; the filling is not chocolate (maybe almond paste) :P |
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| Just to let you see the chocolate bits left in the cup after drinking. It's a pity they didn't give a spoon or stirrer, so I couldn't scoop those bits out to eat! |
One day I saw a sort of coconut cream drink being sold, and tried it.
It was really thick and creamy. I liked it! Very filling though. And it has to be cold to taste good. I drank about half of it, and back at the hotel I put it into the fridge to chill it again.
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| back at the hotel |
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