Tablea is Filipino drinking chocolate pressed into tablet form from roasted, ground cacao beans, used to make champorado and sikwate, traditional hot chocolate. Often stone-ground using a wooden batirol, it carries a deeper, more bitter profile than ordinary commercial cocoa, rooted in regional cacao-growing traditions.
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