Cocoa Trees Halloween Candy Shop at City Hall: S$4.90 Boxes

The Cocoa Trees at Raffles City Shopping Centre, unit #B1-43 at 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103, opens 10am to 10pm every day, and in late October its front table is the quickest Halloween candy shop stop in the Civic District. Boxes of Sorini Happy Halloween chocolate characters cost S$4.90 on the brand's own online shop, the store sits one level above City Hall MRT, and you can be in and out between trains with a bag of trick-or-treat sweets.

This is not a pick-and-mix counter or a novelty sugar palace. The Cocoa Trees is a Singapore chocolate and confectionery retailer that stocks packaged European and American brands, so what you buy here is sealed, labelled and easy to hand out at an office party or a condo trick-or-treat night. The trade-off is that you will not find loose gummies by weight, and the store does not make anything in-house.

The brand's About Us page says The Cocoa Trees was established in 2000. It grew out of Focus Network Agencies, the FNA Group, which the company dates to 1 October 1991 and which began by supplying chocolate to travel retail. Public profiles of the business name Esther Loo, formerly with the DFS chocolate division, as the founder. That airport heritage still shows: the chain runs counters inside Changi Terminal 1, and the city shops carry the same mix of gift boxes and pouches that travellers grab on the way to a gate.

Raffles City is one of the brand's busiest city outlets because of where it sits. The basement level links straight to the City Hall interchange on the North-South and East-West lines, so office workers from the towers around Raffles Avenue pass the shop at lunchtime and again after six. Students heading to the National Library and families coming off the trains to the Esplanade make up the weekend crowd, and many of them are picking up sweets for a party later that night.

The seasonal stock is small but specific. On the official online shop, the Sorini Happy Halloween chocolate characters, a 130g box of moulded milk chocolate figures, are S$4.90. The Zaini Halloween Cereal Crunch milk chocolate bar, 92g, is S$4.50, which makes it the cheapest themed item in the range. Zaini's Halloween Chocolate Surprise Egg is listed at S$7.60, and the HERSHEY'S Kisses Monster bag, 255g, at S$20.20, although both showed as sold out online in the week before Halloween.

That sold-out status is the useful signal. When online stock runs dry, the physical shops are often the last place to find the remaining boxes, so if the Monster Kisses or the surprise eggs are on your list, go early in the week rather than on 31 October. If the Halloween table is already picked over, the regular shelves still hold plenty of party fillers that read as spooky once you pour them into a bowl, especially the dark-wrapped Kisses and sour gummies.

For trick-or-treat bowls, the Haribo range is the practical buy. Haribo Starmix in the 250g bag is S$7.70 online, and the halal-certified 300g Starmix is S$9.30, which matters if you are filling bags for a mixed group at school or work. Goldbears and Happy Cola come at the same prices in both formats. Skittles Crazy Sours in the 318g resealable pouch is S$17.40 and splits into a lot of small handfuls.

For a party game, Jelly Belly BeanBoozled is the one adults remember. The 54g bag of the 7th Edition is listed at S$3.60 and the 100g box at S$14.10. Every colour has a normal flavour and a revolting twin, so the game is guessing which one you picked. It was out of stock online in the run-up to Halloween, so treat it as a lucky find rather than the plan.

Skip the large M&M's pouches if you are only buying for Halloween. At S$21.30 for most 280g to 310g bags, they are among the priciest sweets per gram in the store, and the same candy is widely sold in supermarkets nearby. Spend that money on the themed boxes instead, since those are the items you will not see elsewhere.

The shop is a narrow unit, so the line at the till forms along the shelves rather than outside. Over the weekday lunch hour it fills with office traffic, and on Saturdays the mid-afternoon rush is heavier. The calmest windows are the first hour after 10am opening and the last hour before 10pm closing. If you only want one or two Halloween boxes, have your choice ready before you reach the counter, because staff are often wrapping gift orders for the person ahead.

If the shelf is empty or the queue is long, the brand lists other city outlets on its store page: Suntec City on level two, and TANGS at Tang Plaza on Orchard Road. Suntec is one MRT stop away on the Circle Line from Esplanade or a ten-minute walk along Raffles Link, so it is the easiest backup. For loose retro sweets instead of packaged chocolate, the city does not have an equivalent within walking distance, and that is a real limit of this stop.

Leave through the North Bridge Road exit and walk two minutes to CHIJMES, the former convent school whose white Gothic chapel and courtyard now hold restaurants and bars. In October the lawn is a pleasant place to sit before the dinner crowd. From there, cross to St Andrew's Cathedral on the Padang side; its grounds are open to walk through and the white spire photographs well at dusk.

Continue across the Padang to the National Gallery Singapore, housed in the former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings. The rooftop garden on the Supreme Court side gives a free view across the Padang toward Marina Bay. If you are carrying chocolate in the afternoon heat, keep the bag out of direct sun on this stretch; the heat between the Padang and the Esplanade softens bars quickly.

Address: The Cocoa Trees, Raffles City Shopping Centre #B1-43, 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103. Hours on the official store page are 10:00am to 10:00pm. The closest train station is City Hall MRT on the North-South and East-West lines, with direct basement access; Esplanade on the Circle Line is a short walk through the underpass.

Prices quoted here come from the brand's online shop on 23 October 2026. Halloween stock is limited and several items were already sold out online that week, so arrive earlier in the week for the full range. The store sells packaged confectionery only, with no loose sweets. If you are buying for a halal-observant group, look for the Haribo halal bags, which are labelled on the pack.

For a quick plan, ask the Karpo APP which Civic District shops are still open after 9pm, or where to find loose gummies near City Hall when you need a bigger bag for a party.