For more than 30 years on our Thai cocoa and chocolate road, Thailand is finally one of cocoa producing countries being able to send the samples to Cocoa of Excellence Programme which is the international cocoa award (ICA) competition for the first time in 2019 edition. The founders of MarkRin Chocolate, Assoc. Prof. Sanh La-ongsri, Ph.D. and Kanokked La-ongsri as Thai National Organisation Committee (NOC) would be pleased to select three best samples for submission to the Cocoa of Excellence Programme in 2019.