ABOUT US
The Conspiracy
Conspiracy Chocolate is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker specialised in good flavour through combination of traditional technique with modern food science and culinary arts.
Our philosophy is an intense and all consuming commitment to science, pleasure, art and expression, and mostly to our planet. Following this philosophy relies on teamwork as we push each other to the ambitions these commitments require. Everything we do comes out of this “why.”
Cacao is an incredible superfood when it comes to nutrition AND flavour, and it is our responsibility to bring it out to the world boasting these natural gifts, rather than taking them away in exchange for industrial-style consistency.
We believe the biggest chocolate lovers are romantics and food can truly do magic to the soul, so we design our products not only to be delicious, healthy and thought provoking, but also to reach a deep and familiar nostalgia that evokes your warmest memories.
This exploration of nostalgia, paired with the rich food scene of our local Hong Kong community, birthed a chocolate style that marries the ancient Mesoamerican roots of cacao’s consumption with classic European chocolate tradition and modern Asian cuisine.
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We spend equal time on chocolate production as on research & development. Conspiracy’s Chocolate Lab on Hong Kong Island is constantly studying the boundaries of flavour and how they can be pushed, only with the use of naturally occurring ingredients and gentle processing which does not remove nutrition from our beloved foods.
At a given time 30-40 experiments are ongoing in the Lab. This may be unusual for a small brand but we are all about our chocolates and constantly look for both the next best flavour, as well as improvements to the existing range.
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Everything made in the Chocolate Lab is designed to challenge your palate and further your creations.
Conspiracy is here both to support chefs at the pinnacle of culinary expression, and to enable pleasure seekers in their journey to find the perfect indulgence. This is because we the team, are simultaneously culinary creatives and lovers of palate pleasures.
We are incredibly lucky to be where we are, surrounded by creative projects across all realms of food and art. Chocolate pairs well with almost anything, and we often partner up with other teams that share the same creative determination to invent more together.
Founders
We are a Swiss and Israeli couple who met in Hong Kong with a passion for creating food and discovering new combinations of flavours. Chocolate is an integral part of our romance, so naturally we started trying to make our own.
We began our journey by experimenting with a range of flavours based on our culinary curiosity, combining the Swiss traditional way of making chocolate with the spices and herbs commonly used in Mediterranean cuisine.
After a few months of learning and refining the process in our kitchen in Sai Ying Pun, Conspiracy Chocolate, a small-batch bean-to-bar craft chocolate maker was born. We now craft our chocolate in our own licensed Chocolate Lab in Wong Chuk Hang.
We believe in challenging the conventional. Conspiracy Chocolate is a tribe of daring souls on a sensory voyage.
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Zarah
Conspiracy’s lead R&D chef Zarah Tang is a mean flavour machine. Her curiosity balances hard-earned skill and ambition with a samurai’s solemn humility. She is a fierce savoury chef applying knowledge from culinary school, lessons from her time cooking at Okra, and a deep understanding of ingredients on a new set of challenges in the Chocolate Lab.
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Her background as a certified Kikisake-Shi, or saké sommelier, developed Zarah’s palate to detect the finest notes of flavour. A master of finesse and detail, Zarah’s brain is full of knowledge of tea, saké, coffee, European and Asian ingredients and both classical and modern technique. When you taste a bar of Conspiracy and find a blissful balance of flavour, most likely this is due to Zarah’s sharp palate. This speaks to her wider sense of balance as she masters French technique applied on Asian ingredients, layering bold flavours with soft end-notes to perfect harmony. She is mostly interested in the textures of food so it’s no surprise that her favourite chocolate bar is coarse ground.
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When she’s not sippin’ herbs with an elderly tea seller, Zarah enjoys Dai Pai Dong’s for their cozy atmosphere and strong flavours. Her favourite smell is funky and her vice is jigsaw puzzles. What superpower would she like to have? Zarah doesn’t need a super power.
Andre
A man of beautiful contradictions, Andre Lafontaine Bedecarratz is Conspiracy’s production head and human power plant. The fiercest professional around is best known for his iconic laughter that regularly reverberates across our countertops like an earthquake.
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Andre’s culinary background is as impressive as they come, but his favourite restaurants are humble roadside truck stops in his homeland of Chile.
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His love for Thai street fare, IPA beer, Korean fried chicken (his most lethal vice), mashed potatoes, and tres leches, is rooted in big shared meals, a focus on warm ambience and nostalgic home flavours - just as Conspiracy focuses on bringing out powerful memories with flavours that reach deeply into nostalgia. This is why despite spending his days honing his understanding of the fine notes revealed by pure cacao, his favourite chocolates are our Classic Dark Milk bar, the Blonde, and the Miso bonbon - rich caramely flavours that transport him to childhood.
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Nothing excites this guy more than using food to create a magical environment where people get swept up in the flavour, the moment, and each other’s company. Whether it’s at an upscale restaurant or a dug-out BBQ pit on a remote beach, Andre’s inexhaustible social battery lives on cooking and marinating with friends.
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The zest for life embodied by Andre has become inseparable from Conspiracy’s DNA - from product design to team training, our biggest mission is to nourish. His influence on our products and the brand is immeasurable, as his frank attitude and genuine respect for the craft challenges all of us to be our best, even when it’s tough.
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If given a superpower, he would take teleportation to visit his friends around the world regularly.