The beautifully refurbished lobby lounge
The Chocolate Bar!
Chocolate dim sum
Chocolate Raspberry Cremeux
Belgium chocolate truffles
Chocolate Lolliops Chocolate Pistachio Shooter
Belgium Chocolate Truffles
Milk Chocolate Lemon Entremet White Sacher
Pate de Fruit
Japanese Inspired Sticky Rice Chocolate Sushi Maki and Nigiri
Cocktails – Russian Choc Cookie & Choc Co Berry
Chef Holger Deh, of the Mandarin Oriental, has made every chocoholic’s dreams come true with his recent work of genius, The Chocolate Bar (sound effect: angels ‘ahhh’ing). A delicate spread of cacao inspired treats are seductively posed around the lobby lounge bar luring sinners with their glimmering carapaces of ecru, fawn, amber, cinnamon and sorrel. Cakes, truffles, fountains, even sushi and dim sum chocolate creations are enough to make any adult believe they’ve found the grown-up version of Roald Dahl’s classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Every morsel is delicately imbued with complementary or opposing flavours and so smoothly textured that one is never going to be sufficing. Why stop yourself though? A mere 78RM++ sets you up for unlimited indulgence in the highest quality desserts you’ll find in the country (feel free to point me in another direction if I’m wrong) and a sacchariferous cocktail or mocktail to boot.
Truffles are hand-made on site with the finest ingredients and infused with subtleties that Chef Holger is an expert in synchronizing. Ask Chef what flavours go with various percentages of cacao and he will not only tell you what pairs perfectly with a specific ratio but where the beans should come from for the most seraphic match. He works with 15 different chocolates to find winning combinations. For example, he uses a single origin dark chocolate from Saint Domingue (70%) Рa powerful cocoa flavor with fruity and spicy nuances and rich in aroma and color Рwith an orange cr̬me brulee center to make a divine coupling. While chocolates are my arena, hubby is a creamy cake fan. He was blown away (as was I) by the velvety bliss of the exceptionally light and silky textured tortes. The whole schmear is so expertly constructed that even at the end of tasting EVERYTHING on the bar neither of us were left feeling sluggish from an overdose of sugar.
While the February Chocolate Bar promotion has now ended, addicts can salivatingly look forward to chocolaty afternoons at the Lobby Lounge when it may soon be reintroduced on weekends. Keep your tongue hanging out on The Yum List for updates.
Previous sweet MO posts – 23 December 2011 5 November 2011
The Cake Shop
Ground Floor
Mandarin Oriental
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
Malaysia
+6 03 2380 8888
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/kualalumpur/dining/cake_shop/
Wow, heaven! I want to go!
Chocoholic's heaven indeed 🙂
Oh man, that chocolate bar has my name written all over it! I l.o.ve. chocolate! 😀
Oh yeah and I was surprised that the desserts are not too sweet – no sickly feeling afterward.
Whoa, these are the most devilishly decadent desserts I've seen in a long while! And sushi-inspired chocolate? I'd make the trip for that by itself! 😀
That's pretty cool right – chocolate sushi!
Woahhhh… this is way too cool.. this this a buffet style choc bar?
Yes, a chocolate buffet – can you imagine anything better? 🙂
Chef Holger is a genius. I love his desserts, esp the macarons.
Yes, it's great that with the new refurbishments he's finally got a chance/ space to shine.
Thank you very much Ladies. We are working hard to change things here in Kuala Lumpur. Still a long way to go, many things in my mind and things to implement 🙂
wow .. lots of chocolates…
i like the chocolates lolipop..
last time back in my uni time .. i use to eat chupa chups…
nice….
Chupa chups… my uni days were Freddo Frogs and Caramelo Koalas 🙂
Whoa! I wish such place was next to my house! Ahahaha
Would love to have slices(!) of the Raspberry Cremeux! Yummmm!!!
There would be trouble if this place were next to mine!!!
was there for high tea yesterday and didn't even know about the rm78 unlimited chocolate bar deal. i also have the MO Elite card, meaning if i have a friend with me, i'll be able to get half price 😉
Yeah, that card is good value. I love the Mandarin Grill – which is your favourite outlet in MO?
Thank you Monica for this great review. We will work even harder to set the level higher.
Hi. is this chocolate bar just a promotion in february? please update us if this chocolate bar makes its appearance on weekends! cannot.miss.it.again!
Most likely in June we will do it again, however if the demand is there. We might do it earlier.