Wasabi Chocolate

The Mighty Marg and I were wandering around the gardens at Chi Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill today when we saw a sign for home-made chocolates and decided to check it out. Can you believe it?  She was selling wasabi chocolate!  Marg thought it was too weird for words however I decided that she needed to expand her comfort zone and so, when she wasn't looking, I bought her a couple.

It was really just a joke but the lady proudly packed them so beautifully for us ...

... and the presentation was just so lovely I felt mean for treating her product so lightly, so I bullied Mighty Marg into eating one ... and only two bites and she's desperately reaching for the tissues.

However, being a right clever smarty pants, she managed to find the exact right drink to take away the wasabi-bite:

So now you have a new fact for your foodie arsenal: Cedraia is the perfect drink to accompany Wasabi Chocolate.

And then she challenged me to eat the other, and though I'd like to say I refused, I didn't. I'm willing to expand my comfort zone, and can tell you that wasabi chocolate has a vicious bite ... but five minutes later you feel like more.

So Mighty Marg, also with an entirely new comfort zone, went back and bought more ... but as a gift for Judy, although I'm not sure if this counts as a pass-it-forward joke or if she genuinely wanted to share an entirely new taste sensation, or if it was just that she really liked the little red box they came in.