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Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate
At Kabulonga Shopping
Centre, hidden in the back of the stylish Kudinda fabric, pottery
and furniture shop, you can find the nicest Easter surprise this
year. Veldemeers Belgian Chocolates, which opened last Christmas, is
now offering hand made, hand decorated Easter eggs made of pure
imported Belgian chocolate.
Importing the raw materials from Belgium, the Cocoa Tree company,
based in Harare and run by Belgian, Hans Van Hooreweghe, is
producing top quality Belgian Chocolates and is exporting those to
Lusaka under the Veldemeers trade mark.
Veldemeers chocolates are made from pure Belgian chocolate and other
fresh ingredients. Imported nuts such as pistachios from Iran,
French walnuts, Spanish almonds and Turkish hazelnuts are also used
in the manufacturing process. Veldemeers chocolates do not contain
any chemical preservatives and there is also a range of sugar free
chocolates.
They have a wide variety of milk, dark and white chocolates and you
can select your favourites from the chocolates on display in their
air-conditioned shop. Different sizes of boxes are available and are
filled for you with your personal selection of chocolates. The
well-trained staff then place a ribbon of your choice around the box
and finish it off with a dried rose.
Also available are the African theme chocolates such as elephants,
hippos and Big 5 chocolate coins. These chocolates are extremely
popular with hotels and lodges. Homemade nougat with almonds or
macadamia nuts, bars with or without nuts, extra bitter dark
chocolates (70% cocoa) and chocolate lollies for the little ones,
all make a visit to Veldemeers very interesting.
For Easter, Veldemeers has hand
decorated hollow Easter eggs and small Easter eggs with fine
fillings, taking into account that children are the biggest
consumers of these, so no liqueurs are used for those centres and
Veldemeers is also careful to limit the use of sugar in the
manufacture of the chocolate centres.
As in Zimbabwe, Veldemeers caters for the hospitality business,
producing personalised chocolates in personalised packaging for
hotel and lodge rooms and chocolates for restaurants. All details
are carefully worked out with the management to supply a product
that meets the customer's requirements.
Veldemeers definitely concentrates on
offering a personalised service: very little is prepacked and one
can drop in, look around, let the staff guide you through this
chocolate paradise, make one's choice and then go home and quench
your chocolate desire. And no order is too small - even one single
chocolate can be bought.
Veldemeers Belgian Chocolates is situated at Kabulonga Shopping
Centre, Lusaka (Tel: 01 268-182) |
April
2007