The "British Chocolate Academy" released the 2022 "Golden Bonbon" (Golden Bonbon) award list on the 10th. The award-winning items are all treasures that are unanimously recognized by the jury as worthy of special recognition in the annual competition, including the peach oolong tea from Evergreen Laurel Hotel chocolate.
The "British Chocolate Academy" released the 2022 "Golden Bonbon" (Golden Bonbon) honor list last night. The award-winning items are the treasures that the jury unanimously recognized as worthy of special recognition in the annual competition, including the peach oolong tea from Evergreen Laurel Hotel chocolate.
This chocolate candy made with Taiwanese alpine oolong tea is the only winning entry from Asia. The other three works are all from Europe, including Bulgaria, which ranks first, and Germany and the United Kingdom, which rank second.
Lin Weijun, a member of the jury who has settled in the UK for many years and has a Taiwanese background, told the Central News Agency that winning the "Golden Chocolate Candy" award has to pass multiple levels of judging tests. The winning works are undoubtedly the top chocolate candies.
She said she was particularly pleased that other jury members had noticed that ingredients from Taiwan, such as oolong tea, were of superior quality. Impressively, even though some of the chocolate creations from Taiwan were stuck at UK customs for weeks, they were still of exceptional quality.
Lin Weijun mentioned that many members of the jury have expressed that overall, compared with chocolates from all over the world, the works from Taiwan can be said to be outstanding and rank in the top class in the world.
The British Academy of Chocolate (Academy of Chocolate) has held an international chocolate competition in London every year since 2005. The jury members include chocolatiers, chocolatiers, food critics, journalists, etc., and taste the appearance, aroma, and taste of chocolate in a blind test Performance.
From last year to the beginning of the year, the academy announced the list of winners in each category of the 2022 competition in two waves. The works from Taiwan performed well, winning multiple gold, silver, and bronze awards; Pingtung cocoa beans, which were grown locally and processed locally, also won multiple gold awards.
The jury specifically mentioned in a related press release that Taiwan is called "a source of innovation" and has a high proportion of awards in competition categories such as single products and flavored chocolate.
According to the Academy, in the 2022 International Competition, there are a total of about 900 entries from all over the world.