Borough Market’s Chocolate Pot Changed My Life

After weeks of anticipation, we finally went to the market I’ve been craving since we’ve gotten here: Borough Market. While preparing for this trip, I started seeing more and more TikToks and Instagram posts about London, tourism, and studying abroad. After two of my close friends sent me the same video of Borough Market, I realized I had to go there to get the iconic chocolate strawberry pot. Once we got to the market, we noticed it was much larger than it used to be and we started to get lost in all the people gathering around shops, restaurants, coffee stands, and sweets. After doing a round to survey my options, I decided on Beef Payang Curry for lunch at a local Thai street food shop. Based on some of my meals the past few days, I went for foreign food due to the lack of flavor in the past few British meals I have encountered. However, the curry was a huge disappointment. The meat was on a bed of rice covered in a curry sauce and bright green cilantro, which gave me hope in its presentation. However, after the first bite, I was confused about what I had just purchased. The meat and rice were both undercooked and the curry had flavor, don’t get me wrong, the flavors just tasted incorrect. I ate as much as I could, threw it away, and headed over to the strawberries. My failed attempt at lunch meant nothing to me with the looming chance of strawberry happiness hanging over my head. We quickly made it through the line as we watched them create the treat right in front of us. After they handed me the cup of bright red, succulent berries covered in layers of slowly hardening milk chocolate, I felt as if I had finally found peace. I ate the entire cup raving about the fantastic flavor the entire time and I have already started planning on when I can go back. I even visited Greenwich Market today and tried their version of the same sweet because it was still on my mind. My new goal for this trip is to try to get the chocolate pot as much as I can before I am forced to go back to the States and be far from the strawberry heaven that I once discovered.