Souvenir Chocolate Box
By sishy7
@sishy7 (27167)
Australia
March 27, 2017 2:50am CST
# 62
I received this box of dark chocolate from a friend who visited Yogyakarta in Central Java, Indonesia. The city is known for representing traditional Javanese culture. It is also the home of Candi Borobudur, the world's largest Buddhist temple. 
This souvenir chocolate is made by a renowned chocolate company called Monggo. A Belgian man and his two Indonesian friends started the company in the early 2000s and became the first Chocolatier of Yogyakarta. They specialized in unique Indonesian chocolates. An example of their product is this Stupa Box. It’s probably just some normal dark chocolate but I love the unique shape. Each dark chocolate is shaped as Stupa of Borobudur. So uniquely-shaped, they almost made me feel guilty of eating them… 
This souvenir chocolate is made by a renowned chocolate company called Monggo. A Belgian man and his two Indonesian friends started the company in the early 2000s and became the first Chocolatier of Yogyakarta. They specialized in unique Indonesian chocolates. An example of their product is this Stupa Box. It’s probably just some normal dark chocolate but I love the unique shape. Each dark chocolate is shaped as Stupa of Borobudur. So uniquely-shaped, they almost made me feel guilty of eating them…
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40 responses
@allknowing (135331)
• India
27 Mar 17
It took me almost a month to start eating Lindt chocolates which were in a box so beautifully arranged.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
27 Mar 17
So you ate them 
did you play chest first?
did you play chest first?4 people like this
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
27 Mar 17
@sishy7 haha
Chess* typing on my phone I always make mistakes
Did the box come with a plastic chess mat or something
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
27 Mar 17
@sishy7 That is very unique.Guilty or not guilty,you did eat them.
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@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
29 Mar 17
@silvermist Yeah, good thing I posted about it so I can look back on this in the future if I want to...
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
29 Mar 17
@sishy7 So now nothing is left?Only memories of eating them and the photos?
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
28 Mar 17
that is amazing! What a neat thing they are doing, and tasty too, I may have to add this to places I want to visit!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
28 Mar 17
@sishy7 I have so many that I wanna see, to be honest
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Mar 17
hmmm, i have this weird visual representation of the shapes of the chocolates- they look like the feeding bottles' teats or nipples?!
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@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
27 Mar 17
I guess I can see how you get that visual from the chocolates...
Are you familiar with a stupa? It's a mound-like or dome-shaped structure usually found at a Buddhist shrine or temple. The chocolates are supposed to represent the world famous Borobudur - a structure closely associated with Yogyakarta much as Paris with its Eiffel Tower...2 people like this
@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
28 Mar 17
@ridingbet It may not be on that list anymore, I'm not sure... But it's still the largest Buddhist temple in the world... 
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
@sishy7 i know Borobudur. we learned that in World History as one of the ancient 7 wonders of the world, along with the great pyramids of Egypt, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the great wall of China, and the Banawe rice terraces to name a few.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
27 Mar 17
Oh wow even the look of these chocolates are beautiful. It really look so delicious and tasty.
Good for you, can I have some of it.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
@sishy7 it look like pawn in chess board game
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
28 Mar 17
Very cool..I would have felt guilty eating them too.
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@ichchhe_mrityu (1144)
• Bangalore, India
28 Mar 17
Looks very nice, wish I could taste it. Send me a few of them. 
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
27 Mar 17
You are lucky to have received a chocolate box. Chocolates looks very unique and yummy. Can I have some?
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@youless (112481)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Mar 17
This is a very nice souvenir
I know you feel guilty to eat them. But you can eat them in a holy way. Such as you go to have the bath at first and then change new clean clothes. You hold the chocolate like treasure and then bit them little by little
I know you feel guilty to eat them. But you can eat them in a holy way. Such as you go to have the bath at first and then change new clean clothes. You hold the chocolate like treasure and then bit them little by little1 person likes this
they must have been good i guess. I can understand how guilty you must have felt eating souvenir chocolates
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Mar 17
Very unusual looking, how do they taste?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Mar 17
@sishy7 Oh well, they still look interesting.
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