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The Picky Eater; China is Sweet on Chocolate
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AsianWeek
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March 2, 2006
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AsianWeek
03-02-2006
I thought I had made progress on the chocolates I received from Christmas,
and then Valentine's Day came with all its conversation hearts and
chocolate. You either get chocolates from your significant other, family or
co-workers.
There is always that bowl of red- and pink-foiled wrapped chocolates on
someone's desk, and on another sits a 2-pound Hershey's Kiss. The
availability of chocolate in America is phenomenal. We can indulge in
American-made chocolate, and chocolates from Italy, France, Spain, South
America and China.
China?
Hard to believe, but even chocolate, or qiaokeli, (pronounced
"chow-keh-lee") has found its way to the 1.3 billion people in China, but
it wasn't until ...