Alba is a small team. Every bar, bonbon and gift box that leaves our studio in Bukit Ceylon has passed through the same few pairs of hands.
Asmiriam Roa, founder and chocolate maker
Asmiriam was born in Venezuela to a Colombian father, and grew up around cacao and coffee. She trained as a chocolate maker in Venezuela and worked as a barista for years before moving to Malaysia. A conversation with a regular customer at the café where she worked turned into a partnership, and Alba Chocolatier was born in 2021.
Her starting point is simple: you cannot make great chocolate from bad cacao, so the farmer has to be paid properly for doing the hard part well.
The chocolate makers
Our head chocolatier runs the full bean-to-bar process: roasting, cracking, grinding, conching and moulding every batch, with a production assistant alongside.
The bonbon artists
Each bonbon is painted by hand with coloured cocoa butter before the shell is cast and filled. Corporate and wedding designs are sketched first, then painted piece by piece.
The people who look after your order
Purchasing, scheduling and customer follow-up are handled by the same person from start to finish, which is why custom orders arrive when we say they will.
Come and meet us
We are in the same building as Miss Coco Café, our sister coffee roastery. Drop by, or join a workshop and make a bar with us.