Cocoa Country · Island Hot Chocolate
Island Cocoa
🍫
Photo coming soon
The cocoa in your cup may have grown just up the road — East New Britain and neighbouring Bougainville are among PNG's biggest cocoa-growing regions.
Cocoa beans grown on East New Britain's smallholder plots are dried and roasted, then brewed into a rich, unsweetened hot chocolate or ground into raw cocoa blocks sold at Rabaul's market.
Why it's made this way: Cocoa has been a key smallholder cash crop across the New Guinea Islands region for decades, and drinking it at the source ties the market stall directly back to the plantations just outside town.
Roughly what's in it
160kcal
3gprotein
16gcarbs
9gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
More from Papua New Guinea
Part of World of Street Food — 3248 dishes from 118 countries.
Something wrong here? Tell us in the comments below.
Photo credits.