Chocolate gift boxes from The Shop in Phnom Penh

While we were in The Shop buying our Kampot pepper chocolate, we noticed that they had attractive gift boxes for sale at various prices. After a few moments deliberation, we went for the $10 box and decided to give it to the people who we believed most deserved such a gift – ourselves!

It’s a sort of pic ’n’ mix. You just keep choosing your chocolates until the box is full. The box is very attractive in itself – I’ll save it and use it again for something else. Plus they put a nice little leaflet inside the box, which is a guide so you know what the chocolates are. It’s a really attractive little gift (even if you are only buying it for yourself).

We had all kinds of things in there: Bailey’s-flavoured chocolate truffle, Kampong Speu caramel (I’ve no idea what that is but it tasted great, though not really much at all like caramel as we know it*), heart-shaped chocolates with a raspberry-flavoured filling, and lots of other things.  They’re billed as “Fresh Belgian chocolates made in Cambodia”, and they’re definitely worth a try if you happen to be passing through Phnom Penh.

*Mr Not Delia did a bit of research – he likes to pretend he’s doing something useful – and discovered that Kampong Speu is a province of Cambodia that’s supposed to produce the best palm sugar in the kingdom. Which I suppose would explain why the caramel tasted unfamiliar.