[放眼天下]A Chocolate Café (1)\黑楊（yeung@harkyeung.com）
I always ask students to write what they like, and many of them tell me they don't know what they like.
Do you like chocolate? I think chocolate is something very poetic, so let's start with a poem.
Time to bring chocolate back to town
Theatrically, charm independent tasters
Cherry, drunken, coated with chocolate
Coffee sipped the sun on the table cloth
When I was young, I had never thought that one day someone would say: eat chocolate, it's good for your health. The chocolate culture of the 21st century is something to pay attention to: reports saying that it can prevent high blood pressure are coming out. And I am getting old. So when I saw a café that called itself a chocolate café in Norwich, I walked in for a dose, not knowing that I was going to experience the chocolate culture of the city.
In the late 19th century, a chemist called Albert Caley set up a chocolate factory. He founded a deep well with the purest water in the city and started producing ginger beer and medicated water and moved on to produce chocolate drinks. The factory later was sold and eventually taken over by Nestle. It was set up by a number of former managers who used to work in Caley's. They brought the brand in 1998. In a way they brought back something that the city had lost.
The café is in a Guildhall built with stones and flint in the 15th century, in the room that was once a courtroom. The chair of the judge is still there. There are big windows on both sides and the café is full of light. For a few times, I had a cup of tea with a piece of chocolate there before going elsewhere in the city.
