This bar isn’t exactly what I was expecting. There are a few features of this bar that if I was designing a Thai Tea chocolate bar, I would have done differently. It’s not that this bar isn’t good, it just doesn’t really sell the Thai Tea flavour as well as I think a fine chocolate bar could. I’ve had a few bars made by Siamaya before and they managed to blend the unique Thai flavours with the chocolate much better. The odd thing is, of all the Siamaya bars I’ve tasted, I probably like the flavour of this one the most.

The two problems with this bar are the amount of cocoa and the strength of the Thai tea flavour. A Thai tea is a strong black tea often spiced with local spices, that’s then filled with condensed milk and sometimes sugar. The point is that you have a very strong flavoured tea that’s cooled down using sweetened milk. This bar on the other hand is a weak tea flavour (with some spice flavour) that’s made solid with a slightly bitter milk chocolate. The milk chocolate in this bar is far too dark for what should be a replacement for sweetened milk. The tea, that’s supposed to be strong, is kind of an aftertaste. I would say that this is a mild dark chocolate with a hint of Thai tea.

That being said, the dark milk chocolate was very nice. This is kind of a sweet spot for me when it comes to chocolate. I’ve said in the past that my preference in chocolate is often milk, but there’s something very satisfying about biting into some dark chocolate bars. Since this one seems to be a bit of a hybrid of milk and dark chocolate, it’s both smooth but also has that satisfying dark chocolate flavour. I would honestly love to have a bite of this chocolate without the Thai tea addition, since it really only made this interesting chocolate taste a little strange.

It’s too bad that this didn’t work the way I’d hoped. I’m wondering how I would have felt about this bar had I never tasted Thai tea. Maybe I would have enjoyed the light tea and spice flavour with this interesting chocolate hybrid. Unfortunately I was expecting something that I just didn’t get. The good news is that I got to eat a bar that I really enjoyed, the bad news is I didn’t get to eat a nice bar of Thai tea milk chocolate.