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Downtown San Francisco DIY Tour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Socola<\/em> means chocolate in Vietnamese, and Socola chocolates exhibit a\u00a0unique south Asian twist (Sriracha sauce, durian, tamarind, passion fruit, Vietnamese coffee) plus Wendy and Susan\u2019s sense of humor that you can see in their mascot (Harriet the flying alpaca), the silly names of some of their chocolates (Give it to me Guava, Burnt Baby Burnt), and their marketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Socola chocolates are available at their factory store, at their new SFO shop, online<\/a>, and at special events. They also offer subscriptions: Socola Insiders Club members get a monthly box of Socola treats including preview items not yet available publicly.<\/p>\n Visit Socola for fun and tasty treats, many with an Asian flair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,145,146,15,500],"tags":[17,1320,1317,1468,430,1074],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tour-stop-downtown-sf","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-tour-stop","tag-chocolatier","tag-confectioner","tag-factory-store","tag-listing","tag-recommended","tag-veteran-sfba-artisan-chocolatier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45439,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/45439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}South Asian Fun<\/h2>\n
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<\/a> Socola Chocolatier<\/a><\/strong> ![\"3-5](\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupicon2.png\")
<\/a> was started in 2001 by sisters Wendy and Susan Lieu, when they were both still teenagers.\u00a0This location opened just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, 2014, and originally featured a caf\u00e9. COVID caused the caf\u00e9\u2019s closure in 2020, but the factory store remains open.<\/p>\nOther Socola location:<\/h3>\n
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