In my obsessive research for culinary museums that are still missing from the CFL collection, I zoomed in on the attractive “chocolate” specialty. There were quite a number of exciting finds, among which some virtual noise about a larger than life chocolate museum in China, aimed at seducing the Chinese to satisfy their sweet tooth not just with fruits and cookies, but to add chocolate to their menu as well. Ok, sounds like an interesting commercial enterprise. Additional search brought up many references to the video shown above. Looks like fun, right? But again, just as with the Mexican chocolate museum, it proved to be a mission impossible to find the practical visitors information.
A small Dutch blog post solved that mystery; it is not a new chocolate museum, but a temporary exhibition because around 77 days after the opening of the so called chocolate wonderland, it would be to hot outside to prevent the whole spectacle from melting. Aha. So we have to do with the images and videos of the great wall and the terracotta army made out of chocolate over a 2 year period, just to be vanished within 3 months of display. Does that feel the same as the idea that a beautiful cake is gone after you´ve eaten it? I´m not sure…
