{"id":1825,"date":"2016-10-25T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:17:07","slug":"chocolate-show-olympia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/chocolate-show-olympia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Show @ Olympia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday I went to the Olympia Exhibition Center for the Chocolate Show<\/a>. I got a 50%-off entrance ticket from Timeout.com<\/a>. I guess when you come to the UK, almost everyone will recommend this website to you. It has the latest updates about films, concerts, plays, and so on. Sometimes it has special offers that can save quite a lot money for you. Check out this website once in a while and maybe you can find something fascinating!<\/p>\n

The Chocolate Show is part of the London Chocolate Week. The show attracted a lot of people and at noon there was a long queue at the front door. Many famous chocolate shops had their exhibition stands. And, of course, it\u2019s a show about food, so the most important part is definitely tasting~ Almost every shop offered small pieces of chocolate for people to taste. However, some flavors were really, well, let\u2019s just call them ‘unique’. Like this one, Dark Chocolate with Goji Berries. To be honest, as a Chinese I found the taste really weird. And normally we don\u2019t put goji berries in desserts. We use them to make medicines.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/p>\n

Besides these special flavors, some shops used chocolate to make shoes, tools and greeting cards. I thought no one would eat them because they were so beautiful. Exhibitors used chocolate to build houses and Christmas trees. That\u2019s not about food anymore. That is art!<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/p>\n

Speaking of art, I guess some of you may know last year a chocolate artist\u00a0Jen Lindsey-Clark<\/a>\u00a0created a chocolate figure called Chocobatch and earlier this year she made Cumberbunny. These two were based on the shape (face) of Benedict Cumberbatch. This time her team brought Chocolate Queen. It\u2019s not hard to tell who inspired her. But I always think human-shaped food is a little bit creepy. I do love these fantastic creations and appreciate the artists\u2019 hard work. But when think about it, if you let me eat one of them, where should I start? The head?<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/p>\n

The show also had some clothes with accessories made of chocolate. There was a chocolate fashion show at 5pm but unfortunately I had to leave early. All the chocolate tasted excellent (except the goji berry one, sorry!). There\u2019s no doubt this is the most delicious exhibition I\u2019ve ever been to.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/p>\n

For this story and other posts please visit\u00a0Hua Lu’s personal blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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