This is how local chocolate Lala is made

Remember Lala chocolate? The local chocolate treat distinguished itself from the other local brands with its incredibly chewy consistency and its distinct taste of milk.

On Pinas Sarap, journalist Kara David took a tour of Lala Chocolate’s 39-year-old factory and witnessed how it is made.

Unlike other chocolates, Lala isn’t fat based. Its basic ingredients are pure cocoa and milk. “Other chocolates begin as liquid because its base is oil. Kami, pure milk and cocoa,” Lala Yabut, the current owner of Lala Chocolate said.

Because Lala chocolates milk-based, it doesn't have added fats from oil.

Lala Chocolates is the invention of her father, Salvacion Belaro. From Bicol, his family moved to Manila, and then set up shop in Bulacan. In a barong-barong, he started making molido, a delicacy from Bicol made with kamote and sugar, before conjuring up Lala.

Why Lala you may ask? It’s an acronym of his four children, Louie, Arlet, Luisa, and Arlene. When the product hit relative success, they named their fifth child after the chocolate: Lala. — LA, GMA News