Manoa Chocolate Shop and Factory: Making Bean-to-Bar Chocolate in Kailua
Single-origin chocolates from Hawai‘i and around the world, all made in this Kailua shop.
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Martha Cheng is the former Dining Editor for HONOLULU Magazine. She also writes for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Food and Wine, and Eater. In past lives, she was a line cook, food truck owner, Peace Corps volunteer and Google techie and has degrees in Computer Science and English from Wellesley College. She really likes listing things. More than a decade ago, she came to Honolulu for a boy and stayed for the people and ocean. She was born in San Francisco but prefers surfing in Hawai‘i.
Single-origin chocolates from Hawai‘i and around the world, all made in this Kailua shop.
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