Dubai chocolate in the Netherlands: the bar behind the searches, and where the pistachio comes from

The bar

A thick milk chocolate shell filled with pistachio cream and toasted kadayif, the shredded pastry that gives the bite its crunch. The name comes from the city where it went viral; the filling comes from further east. Pistachio is grown around Gaziantep and kadayif is made there in the same streets, which is why we were making pistachio and kadayif fillings long before the bar had a name, and why the bar is now made there in retail, gift and catering formats.

Where the searches go

Online shops that sell a single bar by courier, the supermarket, the Amsterdam chocolatiers that make their own, and the price. An importer reads those searches differently: the demand is proven, the local supply is small batch and expensive, and a shelf-stable bar with a producer behind it is what the trade is missing, in the Netherlands and on the shelves the Dutch trading houses supply beyond it. The chocolate page lists the bar and the pistachio tablets next to it; pistachio cream in jars, the filling on its own, is on the pistachio page.

The price question

For a shopper the price is set by the courier and the small batch; for an importer it is in the offer: the price per bar in US dollars, the case count, the pallet plan, the tariff line and what applies to the agricultural component under the customs union on the day. Nothing that changes with the exchange rate or the season is printed on this site. A bar that lands by the pallet and sits on a supermarket shelf is a different product, at a different price, from a bar that arrives by courier, and that gap is what the searches are pointing at.

What the Dutch entry needs

The A.TR movement certificate under the EU–Türkiye customs union; a Dutch label to the EU food information rules with the responsible food business named; the composite-product attestation for the dairy in the milk chocolate, drawn up from our documents; and a reefer in the warm months. The Netherlands page lists what stays the same on every offer.

Under whose name

In our standard packs from the first container, or under your own brand: the Dutch private label page goes through the formats, the label content in the languages you name and the artwork approval. A chocolatier that wants its own name on a bar it does not have to temper itself has a producer for it, and the pistachio cream and the kadayif filling are sold on their own for the ones that pour their own shells.

What to send first

The lines from the chocolate page, the dragée page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, whether you want the load by road or by sea to Rotterdam, and whether any line carries your own brand. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars and the A.TR paperwork listed; the samples page explains how to taste the lines first, and the Netherlands page lists what stays the same on every offer.

Every line here is made in our own factory at Başpınar OSB, Gaziantep — a 10,000 m² site, exporting since 2002 — and certificate copies are available on request.