{"id":15334,"date":"2020-04-12T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T21:40:47","slug":"formosa-chocolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/formosa-chocolates\/","title":{"rendered":"Formosa Chocolates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15336 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox.jpg\" alt=\"Formosa open box\" width=\"700\" height=\"564\" data-wp-pid=\"9459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox.jpg 700w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox-320x258.jpg 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox-640x516.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox-348x280.jpg 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Formosa-openbox-200x161.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>San Rafael, CA<\/h4>\n<h2><a title=\"Chocolate icons\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/chocolate-icons\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72LocalChocolatier.png\" alt=\"Local Chocolatier\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>Chocolate is the best medicine<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formosachocolates.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formosa Chocolates<\/a>,<\/strong> established in 2019 by psychologist Kimberly Yang, makes pretty truffles in the European tradition of subtle flavors, but with the twist of some unusual combinations like Peach Raspberry Caramel and Blood Orange Speculoos. Kimberly studied at Callebaut Academy in Belgium, and describes her chocolates as \u201cbetter than antidepressants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formosa Chocolates are available online and at special events like the TasteTV Chocolate Salons. You can also order for pickup in Oakland.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more on CBTB:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/outsidechocolate\/chocolateroundtheworld\/break-me-off-a-piece-of-that\/\">Break me off a piece of that<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cCraft chocolate party\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/craft-chocolate-party\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Craft chocolate party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/chocolate-in-the-time-of-covid\/\">Chocolate in the time of COVID<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/chocolate-vs-covid-19\/\">Chocolate vs. COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/lights-camera-chocolate\/\">Lights, camera, chocolate!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBetter than antidepressants\u201d chocolates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,146,15,884,447],"tags":[17,1151,1468,28],"class_list":["post-15334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-north-bay","category-tour-stop-oakland","tag-chocolatier","tag-formosa-chocolates","tag-listing","tag-san-rafael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45147,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions\/45147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}