In preparation for the World Chocolate Wonderland exhibition opening on January 29, 2010, Chinese confectioners have created an entire Great Wall of Chocolate.
“You have higher and lower levels and you have to fit each brick into place, one by one, to build it up, it’s difficult,” said chocolatier Wang Qilu. The wall reportedly includes an entire “crumbling” section, just like the real thing.
The hope of World Chocolate Wonderland general manager, Tina Zheng, as well as many of the participating chocolatiers, is that the approximately 80 ton exhibition (including other wonders like 560 chocolate terracotta warrior replicas) will boost China’s chocolate industry.
“Chocolate has not been around in China that long, it doesn’t have that several-thousand-year history that it does in the West which has made chocolate as common as milk or fruit,” Zheng told Reuters.
The wall stands just 33 feet long, but is doubtlessly far more delicious than the actual, 5,500.3 mile wall.
If you’re interested in seeing China’s World Chocolate Wonderland, get yourself to the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium on January 29.
[via Reuters]
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